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: This question is based on William Shakespeare's Macbeth.Which of the following is the most fitting moral lesson that the reader can derive from the play? Options:
  A) It is not good to be over -ambitious
  B) A determined wife is a curse to the husband
  C) Power is sweet but always over-used
  D) Every evil is punishable
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 532:

  This question is based on Literary Appreciation.The imagery created in the excerpt below is achieved through

  '........They do not see the funeral piles

  At home eating up the forests.......'

  _ _ J.P. -Clark: Casualties

  Options:
  A) metaphor
  B) personification
  C) synecdoche
  D) antonym
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 533: "Now take this boat business for instance. There is a lot of money to be made in it,but start something, and fools will start shouting slogans at you."Based on Ayi Kwei Armah's , The Beautiful Ones are Not Yet Born, who made the above statement? Options:
  A) Amankwa
  B) Oyo
  C) Koomson
  D) Osagyefo
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 534: This question is based on General Literacy Principles A literacy device wherein the author places a person, concept, idea or theme parallel to another is ________? Options:
  A) allusion
  B) juxtaposition
  C) symbolism
  D) memoir
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 535: 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 536: These questions are based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.The news of Juliet's death is broken to Romeo in Mantua by Options:
  A) Balthasar
  B) Boy C
  C) Friar John
  D) Friar Lawrence
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 537: These questions are based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.The spatial setting of the play is Options:
  A) verona
  B) padua
  C) venice
  D) athens
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 538:

  Dramatis personae in a play refers to

  Options:
  A) cast list
  B) list of characters
  C) protagonist and antagonist
  D) order of appearance
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 539:

  These questions are based on Literary AppreciationAnd your laughter like a flame piercing the shadows have revealed Africa to me beyond the snow of yesterday.

  From the poem above, SHADOW means

  Options:
  A) bleak future
  B) period of suffering
  C) abstract ideas
  D) famine
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 540:

  A poet‘s use of regular rhythm is known as _______?

  Options:
  A) allegory
  B) assonance
  C) metre
  D) onomatopoeia
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  The correct answer is C .