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:

  'I wonder how long, you awful parasites, Shall

  Share with me this little bed, And awake me, from

  My sweet dreams be lost,By sucking blood from

  My poor head...' Mbure:To a Bed-Bug

  From the lines above, the poet persona expresses dismay about

  Options:
  A) grasshoppers
  B) bed-bugs
  C) bat
  D) cockroaches
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 42: This question is based on William Shakespeare's Romeo's and Juliet.
  The chorus in the prologue of the play is essentially meant to Options:
  A) foreshadow the play
  B) highlight the characters
  C) estimate the actions
  D) introduce the play
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 43: This question is based on Ayi Kwei Armah''s ''The Beautyful Ones are Not Yet Born''.By the coup which takes place towards the end of the novel, the writer suggests that Options:
  A) there is very little hope for genuine change
  B) all corrupt politicians shall be ousted
  C) the military is the hope for salvation
  D) the beautiful ones will soon be born
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 44: This question is based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
  Romeo's death becomes inevitable because Options:
  A) Emir Lawrence's is not delivered;
  B) Juliet is married to Paris
  C) Romeo kills Tybalt in a duel
  D) Juliet has committed suicide.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 45:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  'From Debbie's room comes the sound of the typewriter. It is an old mechanical typewriter, its noises are metallic and clicking. It chitters onto the end of a line musical, or almost musical 'cling' of the little bell.'

  A.S Byatt, 'Artwork'

  A striking figure of speech used in the passage above is

  Options:
  A) onomatopoeia
  B) zeugma
  C) assonance
  D) paradox
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 46:

  This question i based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa, E.K. Senanu and T. Vincent (ed.)Selection of African Poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.

  In 'The Casualties' J.P. Clark discusses

  Options:
  A) soldiers who die in the war
  B) insecurity of the writer in times of crisis
  C) the suffering of soldiers and civilians during a war
  D) those whose property is destoryed during a war
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 47:

  'The fair breeze blew
  The white foam flew
  The furrow followed free
  We were the first that ever burst
  Into that silent sea.'

  The dominant figure of speech in the above passage is

  Options:
  A) repitition
  B) alliteration
  C) paradox
  D) rhyme scheme
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 48: These question is based on General Literary Principles.A mistake committed by the hero which leads to his downfall is known as Options:
  A) climax
  B) tragic flaw
  C) comic relief
  D) terse
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 49:

  This question is based on General Literature Principles and Literary Appreciation

  'I had a tent impression that there was something decidedly fine in Mr. Wopsle's elocution-not for old association's sake, I am afraid, but because it was very slow, very dreary, very up-hill and down-hill, and very unlike any way in which any man in any natural circumstances of life or death ever expressed himself about anything'.

  Great Expectations by Charles Dickens.

  The uniqueness of Mr. Wopsle's speech is expressed in this passage through

  Options:
  A) a metaphor
  B) an irony
  C) a hyperbole
  D) a flashback
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 50:

  "Lift not the painted veil which those who live

  Call life:through unreal shapes be pictured there,

  And it mimic all we would believe

  With colors idly spread,-behind, lurk fear.' P.B. Shelley:SonnetThe stanza above is an example of a

  Options:
  A) couplet
  B) sestet
  C) quatrain
  D) sonnet
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  The correct answer is C .