Literature-In-English Exam Past Questions and Answers | JAMB, WAEC and NECO

Literature in English is the study of works written in the English language. It includes all forms of writing, such as novels, plays, short stories, and poetry. This subject involves exploring and analyzing these texts to understand their themes and meanings.

• Question 411: An action in a play that stimulates the audience to pity a character is Options:
  A) pyrrhic
  B) props
  C) pathos
  D) parody
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 412: A poem written on a grand theme, in an appropriately grand style, dealing with heroic figures is called Options:
  A) a soliloquy
  B) a tragi-comedy
  C) an epic
  D) an epigram.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 413:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Appreciation.

  Assonance occurs when

  Options:
  A) a character speaks eloquently in a play
  B) similar vowel sounds are repeated in a sentence or line of poetry
  C) consonants are repeated at the beginning of words
  D) words rhyme alternately
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 414:

  "Rather than so, come fate, into the list,

  And champion me to the utterance!"Based on William Shakespeare's Macbeth, "Rather than so"in the quotation above refers to

  Options:
  A) Macbeth's fear of not being king
  B) Banqou's children becoming kings
  C) Macduff defeating Macbeth on the battle field
  D) Birnam wood coming to Dunsinane
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 415: This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
  'I find no peace, and all my war is done;
  Ifear and hope, I burn and freeze like ice;
  I flee above the wind, yet can I not arise;
  And nought I have and all the world in season'.
  The fight of speech most prominently used in the passage above is Options:
  A) oxymoron
  B) alliteration
  C) euphemism
  D) hyperbole
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 416: The dominant literary device in Diop's Vanity is Options:
  A) rhetorical question
  B) allusion
  C) hyperbole
  D) dramatic irony
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 417:

  When an object is invested with a meaning beyond its immediate reference, it becomes

  Options:
  A) a symbol
  B) an irony
  C) a subject
  D) an epigram
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 418: This question is based on William Shakespeare's Hamlet
  The death of Polornius can be partly blamed on Hamlet's Options:
  A) anger
  B) procrastination
  C) fear
  D) disendantment
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 419:

  A trade, Sir, that, i hope, i may use with a safe conscience; which is, indeed, Sir, a mender of bad soles.

  The passage is referring to a

  Options:
  A) religious preacher who saves sinful souls
  B) physician who cures diseases of the sole
  C) workman who repears shoes
  D) trader who prevents bad sales
  E) trader who cheats customers during sales.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 420:

  This question is based on selected Poems from Ker, D. et al (eds.): New poetry from African; Syinka, W. (ed.): poems of Black African; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds.): A Selection of African poetry; Umukoro, M. et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature- in - English; Eruvbetine, A.E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga, D.I. (ed.): West African Verse.

  'On the sand hill her footprints Gleam like a prisoner's chain

  The lines above from Mohan Singh's .

  'A village girl' suggest the girl's

  Options:
  A) firmness of bearing
  B) slow movement
  C) difficult in walking
  D) psychedelic movement
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  The correct answer is C .