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 531:

  The moment of recognition of truth when ignorance gives way to knowledge is known as

  Options:
  A) Anamnesis
  B) Anagnorisis
  C) Hamartia
  D) Hubris
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 532: THIS QUESTION ARE BASED ON SELECTED POEMS FROM D.I. NWOGA'S (ED.): WEST AFRICAN VERSE.
  The choice of imagery in J.P Clark's 'Olukun' suggests that the poem intended to arouse Options:
  A) jealousy
  B) secular sentiments
  C) religious sentiments
  D) erotic feelings.
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 533:

  Be him English

  Be him African

  Be him Nigerian

  The lines above are an example of

  Options:
  A) epigram
  B) anaphora
  C) epitaph
  D) tautology
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 534:

  These questions are based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.

  'Farewell.- God knows when we shall meet again, I have a faint cold fear thrills through my veins,

  That almost freezes up the heat of life.

  I'll call them back again to comfort me.

  Nurse!-What should she do here?

  My dismal scene i need must act alone. Come, vial'.

  The intention of the speaker above is to

  Options:
  A) commit suicide
  B) commit murder
  C) escape from harsh realities of life
  D) take a temporary harmful substance
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 535:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Literary Appreciation

  'Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower.'

  We will grieve not, rather find

  Strength in what remains behind',....

  'Ode- Intimations of Immorality

  By William Worthsworth

  The above lines convey a sense of

  Options:
  A) dejection
  B) uneasy acceptance
  C) deep distress
  D) nostalgia
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 536:

  This question is based on Chinua Achebe's Arrow of God

  Which of the following BEST describes Ezeulu's mood when he was locked up in Okperi by the white administrator?

  Options:
  A) Indifference
  B) Despair
  C) Apathy
  D) Nobility of mind
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 537: This question is based on General Literary Principles.
  An interlude is a brief Options:
  A) presentation in the interval of a dramatic performance
  B) play before the main dramatic performance
  C) presentation after the main dramatic performance
  D) dialogue between two persons
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 538:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Literary Appreciation

  'The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew,

  The furrow followed free;

  We were the first that ever burst

  Into that silent sea...'

  'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' by S.T.

  Coleridge

  The dominant figure of speech in the above passage is

  Options:
  A) paradox
  B) repetition
  C) alliteration
  D) antithesis
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 539:
  From the novel; Native Son

  The question is based on Richard Wrights NATIVE SON

  Mr Dalton is of the opinion that Negroes are happier when they are

  Options:
  A) together
  B) servant in the white family
  C) educated
  D) given some respect
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 540: This question is based on General Literary Principles
  The use of gestures to communicate in drama is known as Options:
  A) mime
  B) melodrama
  C) soliloquy
  D) burlesque
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  The correct answer is A .