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 421:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  In literary convention, 'aside' is used to

  Options:
  A) make a pointed remark
  B) emphasize scenes as different from acts
  C) distinguish between events
  D) gossip about other characters
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 422: This question is based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
  The major reason for Juliet's grief is Options:
  A) The death of her cousin;
  B) her reluctant marriage to Romeo
  C) the banishment of her lover
  D) her imminent death
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 423: This question is based on General Literary Principles.In a tragic play the device used to reduce tension is known as Options:
  A) comic relief
  B) rhetoric
  C) anti-climax
  D) climax
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 424:

  This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa and D.I. Nwoga (ed.) West African Verse.

  '...these white lilies tossed their little heads then

  In the moon-steeped ponds;

  There was bouncing gaiety in the crisp chirping

  Of the cricket in the undergrowth,...

  These lines from Kwesi Brew's 'The Executioner's

  Dream suggest that

  Options:
  A) even nature rejoices at human sacrifice
  B) nature is indifferent to man's predicament
  C) there is harmony in nature
  D) there is a lot of activity in the undergrowth
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 425:

  Analogy is the arrangement of two ideas that are_________

  Options:
  A) opposite
  B) similar
  C) symbolic
  D) repetitive
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 426:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  The figure of speech in which a character makes a statement that has or would have deep and serious implication in the play is

  Options:
  A) aside
  B) euphemism
  C) dramatic irony
  D) textual contrast
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 427:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  The predominant use of the third-person pronoun in a novel creates a

  Options:
  A) sense of detachment on the part of the writer
  B) sense of detachment on the part of the reader
  C) psychological affinity with the characters
  D) balance of opinion among the characters
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 428: In the play The Gods Are Not To Blame, Odewale became King of Kutuje by Options:
  A) usurpation in a typical Ijekun manner
  B) deserting the poeple of Ikolu whose army he led
  C) divulging the war secrets of Ikolu to Kutuje
  D) leading Kutuje in a war against Ikolu.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 429:

  This question is based on General Literary Appreciation

  The poetic device that forcefully brings together two seemingly unrelated ideas or concepts is

  Options:
  A) conceit
  B) contrast
  C) couplet
  D) diatribe
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 430:

  The process of creating characters and endowing them with certain attitude is ......

  Options:
  A) Action
  B) Character
  C) Characterization
  D) Dramatis personae
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  The correct answer is C .