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 41:

  These questions are based on Buchi Emecheta's The Joy of Motherhood.

  For attempted murder , Nnaife was jailed for

  Options:
  A) four months
  B) five months
  C) two months
  D) three months
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 42: "The madman has entered our house with violence
  Defiling our sacred grounds
  Claiming the single truth of the universe
  Bending down our priest with iron".
  Mazzizi Kunnene's progress
  The imagery of the line above captures the idea of Options:
  A) coercion
  B) truth
  C) religiosity
  D) persuasion
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 43: This question is based on William Shakespeare's Hamlet
  'Fear it, Ophelia, fear it, my dear sister;
  And keep you in the rear of your affection, Out of the shoot and danger of danger of desire.
  The Chariest maid is prodigal enough if she unmask her beauty to the moon.
  In the excerpt above, Laertes warns Ophelia to beware of Hamlet's attentions because Options:
  A) of his insanity
  B) such attentions cannot be given by too young a person
  C) of his mournful state
  D) the sincerity of his love is in doubt
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 44:

  Using the name of one thing for something else with which it is closely associated in an instance is

  Options:
  A) paradox
  B) parody
  C) parallelism
  D) metonymy
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 45:

  Which element of drama tells the actor what to do?

  Options:
  A) dialogue
  B) stage directions
  C) cast
  D) scenes
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 46: These question is based on J.C. De Graft's Sons and Daughters. Aaron'...All I need really is a place in an Art school, engineering can go hang itself.The dominant figure of speech in the excerpt above is Options:
  A) personification
  B) metaphor
  C) metonymy
  D) synecdoche
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 47: A sonnet is a poem of Options:
  A) fourteen lines
  B) ten lines
  C) seven stanzas
  D) six stanzas
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 48: Which of the following is NOT a form of poetic expression Options:
  A) Sestet
  B) Lyric
  C) Sonnet
  D) Elegy.
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 49:

  This question is based on Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbirdge.

  Hardy employs the character of Henchard to propagate the notion of

  Options:
  A) confessing our weaknesses
  B) courageously combating adversity
  C) taking steadfast decisions
  D) accepting inevitable defeat
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 50:

  A dramatic type directed against an individual or a private institute with the intent to severely ridicule is called_________

  Options:
  A) satire
  B) burlesque
  C) caricature
  D) lampoon
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  The correct answer is D .