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 541:

  This question is based on William Shakespeare's Hamlet.

  Ghost serves to

  Options:
  A) accelerate dramatic conflict
  B) intensify dramatic conflict
  C) initiate dramatic conflict
  D) complicate dramatic conflict
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 542:

  'The all-seeing sun

  Ne'er saw her match since first the world begun'

  The above lines were spoken in Romeo and Juliet by

  Options:
  A) count Paris in praise of juliet
  B) Romeo in praise of Juliet
  C) Romeo in praise of Rosaline
  D) Lady Capuiet in praise of Rosaline.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 543:

  "I had not taken the first step in knowledge, I had not learnt to let go with the hands".The above lines is an example of a

  Options:
  A) Aspotrophe
  B) Alliteration
  C) Repetitiion
  D) Assonance
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 544:

  A band of singers and dancers in drama who acts as a link between the play and the audience is the

  Options:
  A) Chorus
  B) Clown
  C) Playwright
  D) Cast
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 545:

  This question is based on THE JOURNEY OF THE MAGI.

  Read the excerpt and answer question
  "And running away, and wanting their liquor and women,
  And the night-fires going out, and the lack of shelters,
  And the cities hostile and the towns unfriendly"

  The dominant device in this excerpt is ___

  Options:
  A) metaphor
  B) synecdoche
  C) simile
  D) paradox
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 546:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  'In the arena

  They began to sing my song,

  We could hear it faintly

  Passing through the air'

  Okot p'Bitek, 'Song of Lawino'

  What is the figure of speech used in the passage above?

  Options:
  A) Metaphor
  B) Irony
  C) Personification
  D) Simile
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 547:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  'There was something very disturbing about his features today, there was something which suggested an untidiness of a sort rather like a cotton dress washed in salty water and worn until it reeks of human sweet. There was something very vulnerable about his looks, something quite restless.

  Nuruddin Farah, 'Sweet and Sour Milk'

  The passage above illustrates the use of

  Options:
  A) climax
  B) deus ex machina
  C) trance
  D) suspense
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 548: Which of the following could be said to be a permanent feature of a poem? Options:
  A) Rhyme
  B) Repetition
  C) Rhythm
  D) Symbolism.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 549:
  From the novel; Othello

  The question is based on Williams Shakespeares OTHELLO

  Othello kills Desdemona because the_______

  Options:
  A) former is jealous
  B) former's race is insulted
  C) latter is a witch
  D) latter is an idol
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 550:

  This question is based on �Literary Appreciation

  And the fountain of Tololo is an Oasis it quenches the thirst of travellers The myriad paces of the mind fold their wings, For here too, growth emerges from sleep; from a beginning that was the end of an era.'

  Mazisi Kunene: The Ancestors and the Sacred Mountain From the excerpt above, it can be said that the poet is being

  Options:
  A) paradoxical
  B) anttithetical
  C) illogical
  D) tautological
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  The correct answer is A .