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 451:

  "Rays of sun peepingthrough the cloud", the line is an example of

  Options:
  A) Synecdoche
  B) Irony
  C) Apostrophe
  D) Personification
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 452:

  ________ are generally regarded as brief but purposeful references, within a literary text, to a person, place, event, or to another work of literature.

  Options:
  A) Referrals
  B) Chiasmus
  C) Metonymy
  D) Allusions
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 453:

  This question is based on Ernest Hermingway's The Old Man and the Sea

  The Old Man and the Sea epitomizes

  Options:
  A) the relationship between a man and a fish
  B) the vain expectations of man
  C) life on the high seas
  D) a fulfilled life
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 454:

  Empathy is achieved when the audience

  Options:
  A) feels betrayed by the director
  B) vicariously participates in the stage experience
  C) attacks the character foil
  D) denounces and humiliates the protagonist
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 455: 'In Germany, under the law, everything is prohibited except that which is permitted, in the Soviet Union, everything is prohibited, including that which is permitted'. The last sentence is an example of Options:
  A) innuendo
  B) paradox
  C) euphemism
  D) allusion.
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 456:

  This question is based on William Golding's Lord of the Flies.

  That the rescue ship was attracted not by a fire made for the purpose but by one aimed at smoking Ralph out for destruction is a case of

  Options:
  A) oxymoron
  B) paradox
  C) irony
  D) catastrophe
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 457: Based on Ayi Kwei Armah's , The Beautiful Ones are Not Yet Born, what is the author's perception of real change in the novel? Options:
  A) A change of government
  B) A change of rulers
  C) The elimination of opponents
  D) The transformation of society
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 458: These qustion is based on selected poems from Johnson, R, et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ED.): Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds.): A Selection of African Poetry: U. Maduka, C.T et al: Exam Focus: Literature Examination Guides; Nwoga, D.I. (ed.): West African Verse and Adeoti G: Naked Soles.In Lawrence's Bat, the poet compares bats with Options:
  A) sparrows
  B) swans
  C) swallows
  D) crows
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 459:

  This question is based on Literary Appreciation

  ''O fleeting gleam of noon dream You incense my clothed cream!

  Tony E. Afejuku:An Orchard of Wishes

  The literary device used in the lines above is

  Options:
  A) repetition
  B) refrain
  C) consonance
  D) assonance
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 460:

  "O'deadly sin! O rude unthankfulness!

  Thy fault our law calls death, but the kind

  Prince, taking thy part, hath rushed aside the law,

  And turned that black word "death" to banishment."Based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, the speaker in the passage above is

  Options:
  A) Apothecary
  B) Lord Capulet
  C) Lord Montague
  D) Friar Lawrence
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  The correct answer is C .