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 441:

  "The sun used to smile in my hut".

  The line is an example of

  Options:
  A) Apostrophe
  B) personification
  C) Rhetorical Question
  D) Zeugma
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 442:

  This question is based on General Literature Principles and Literary Appreciation.

  A statement whose meaning is contrary to that openly expressed is an example of

  Options:
  A) metaphor
  B) oxymoron
  C) irony
  D) personification
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 443: These questions are based on selected poems from Ker,D. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka,(ed.): Poems of Black Africa; 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. (eds.): West Africa Verse.The theme of the Acquah's In the Navel of the Soul is Options:
  A) the conflict of traditions
  B) the futility of man and his tradition
  C) the strenght in diversity of culture and traditional views
  D) ensuring that traditions and beliefs were strictly observed
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 444:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Appreciation.

  One major narrative technique a novel shares with drama is

  Options:
  A) scenes
  B) dialogue
  C) soliloquy
  D) sarcasm
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 445: This question is based on General Literature Principles and Literary Appreciation.A picaresque novel is a Options:
  A) work of fiction set in a utopian past recalling the splendour of rural life
  B) psychological novel with penetrating analyses of human emotions
  C) futuristic novel set in outer space
  D) work of fiction tracing the adventures of a scoundrel of low birth
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 446:

  This question is based on William Shakespeare's Macbeth.

  The play reaches a turning point when

  Options:
  A) Macduff's wife and children are murdered
  B) Banquo is murdered and Fleance escapes
  C) Duncan is murdered in Macbeth's castle
  D) Macbeth sees the witches a scond time
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 447: This question is based on William Shakespeare's Romeo's and Juliet.
  Romeo's death becomes inevitable because Options:
  A) Friar Lawrence's letter is not delivered
  B) Juliet is married to Paris
  C) Romeo kills Tybailt in a duel
  D) Juliet has committed suicide
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 448:

  This question is based on Literary Principles

  'And the promised pleasure will the face of vanished treasure in the face of plundered pound hidden beneath roots of greener grasses in a land far from the masses

  The tone of the poem above is

  Options:
  A) optimistic
  B) interrogative
  C) persuasive
  D) pessimistic
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 449:

  This question is based on Ola Rotimi's Ovonramwen Nogbaisi.Forget self! Forget status! let power die so that Benin may live!....

  Iyase's entreaty comes when

  Options:
  A) the Ifa priest makes his predicitions
  B) the whitemen attack Benin
  C) Ovonramwen is discovered in hiding
  D) Ovonramwen is asked to pay homage to the Whiteman
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 450:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  The technique used in bringing the plot of a play to an abrupt end is called

  Options:
  A) deus ex machina
  B) endnote
  C) climax
  D) denouement
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  The correct answer is A .