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 641:

  Fletcher'sUpon An Honest Man's Fortuneachieves its lyrical effect through the use of

  Options:
  A) Synecdoche
  B) Antithesis
  C) enjambment
  D) Ballad
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 642:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  'Still stand stubborn

  To stones that strangle the dawn,

  Still stand stubborn

  To stones that maim the morn,

  Still stand stubborn

  To stones that assail the sun'

  Atukwei Okai, 'Sunset Sonata'

  The dominant literary device employed in the above passage is

  Options:
  A) onomatopoeia
  B) repetition
  C) metonymy
  D) alliteration
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 643: 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 644:
  From the novel; The Wives' Revolt

  This question is based on J.P Clark's The Wives Revolt.

  The highest measure women in the community can take to register their protest is

  Options:
  A) take prostitution
  B) carry out the nude act
  C) abandon their husbands
  D) abandon their children
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 645:

  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 646:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  The purgation of the emotions of pity and fear in tragedy is called

  Options:
  A) catharsis
  B) tragi-comedy
  C) demetia
  D) cleansing
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 647:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Appreciation.

  A burlesque is

  Options:
  A) an exaggerated mockery of a literary work
  B) a sentimental comedy
  C) an account of a famous person's life
  D) a rhetorical device used for effect in poetry
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 648:

  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 649:

  This question is based on Wole Soyinka's

  The Trials of Brother Jero.

  The spotlight on the dark stage in the opening of the reveals

  Options:
  A) Amope
  B) the prophet
  C) Jero's house
  D) Chume
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 650: Based on J.C. De Graft's Sons and Daughters:From the play, George is a Options:
  A) laboratory assistant
  B) pharmacist
  C) nurse
  D) medical doctor
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  The correct answer is D .