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 561: The writing convention in which the events in a narrative are scrambled as they come to the writers mind without any attempt to arrange them in orderly sequence is called Options:
  A) shifting style
  B) narrator's mind style
  C) psycho-consciousness style
  D) stream of consciousness
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 562: Based on George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, Winston Smith works in the Record Department of the Ministry of Options:
  A) Peace
  B) Plenty
  C) Love
  D) Truth
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 563:

  This question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops To Conquer.

  The success of the play as a comedy relies on the author's use of

  Options:
  A) dramatic irony
  B) stock comic characters
  C) comic relief
  D) stage and scenic disguise
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 564:

  "Love blurs your vision; but after it recedes,you

  Can see more clearly than ever. It's like the tide

  Going out revealing whatever has been thrown away

  And sunk; broken bottles, old gloves,rusting

  Pop-cans, nibbled fish bodies, bones.The ruin

  You've made." Margaret Atwood, Cat's EyeThe passage above claims that when "love recedes", you

  Options:
  A) clean up broken bottles
  B) come to self-knowledge
  C) realize your vision is blurred
  D) surrender to your weakness
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 565:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  The technique found in drama in which the audience knows what the actor does not know is called

  Options:
  A) stage direction
  B) dramatic irony
  C) setting
  D) improvisation
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 566:

  This question is based on THE LEADER AND THE LED.

  " The hyena says the crown is made for him" in the above excerpt, the use of the word "crown " is a good deployment of ____

  Options:
  A) oxymoron
  B) imagery
  C) personification
  D) synedoche
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 567: This question is based on General Literary Principles
  An expression that signifies a whole through its significant parts is Options:
  A) synaesthesia
  B) synecdoche
  C) metonymy
  D) allegory
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 568:

  This question is based on selected poems from D. Ker, C. Maduka et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa, Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa, K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.

  The repetition of the line 'They Too Are Earth' has the effect of

  Options:
  A) making us more conscious of the earth
  B) beautifying the experience the poem describes
  C) accusing us of human insensitivity
  D) enhancing the imagery of the poem
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 569: This question is based on General Literary Principles.The opposite of the part that introduces the main work in literature is known as Options:
  A) prologue
  B) epitome
  C) epilogue
  D) epitaph
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 570: The literary device in which there is a difference between what is stated and what is actually the case is called Options:
  A) a metaphor
  B) a simile
  C) a personification
  D) an irony
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  The correct answer is D .