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 661:

  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 662:

  Literature is studied as a subject at school because

  Options:
  A) it exposes students to the realities of life
  B) it provides entertainment
  C) it merely gives additional work to students
  D) it teaches the use of words
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 663: This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
  In the character of Mrs. Pocket, Dickens satirizes Options:
  A) cruelty to servants
  B) aristocratic snobbery
  C) gossiping females
  D) over-indulgent parents
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 664: These questions are based on general Literary principlesIn drama drama dramaturge is he who Options:
  A) writes or edits plays
  B) directs a play
  C) acts a film
  D) features in a play
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 665:

  No. no1 Do not blame the gods. Let no one blame the powers. My people, learn from my fall.

  The powers would have failed if I did not let them use me. They knew my weakness: the weakness of a man easily moved to the defence of his tribe against others.'

  O.Rotimi: The Gods are not to Blame.The speaker in the passage is

  Options:
  A) reckless
  B) insane
  C) a coward
  D) a hero
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 666: Based on Buchi Emecheta''s The Joys of Motherhood, Adaku remains faithful to Nnaife until she Options:
  A) is rebuked by the Ibuza society for abusing Nnu Ego
  B) becomes rich and powerful
  C) starts keeping unnecesary friends
  D) is unable to give birth to a male child
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 667:

  This question is based on WUTHERING HEIGHT.
  What gift did Mr. Earnshaw promise to bring Nelly Dean from Liverpool?

  Options:
  A) A bridle for her horse
  B) A fiddle
  C) Fruit
  D) A set of paints
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 668:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Literary Appreciation

  In a conic-tragedy, the unknotting of the plot, the resolution of the mystery and the resolution of the misunderstanding is called

  Options:
  A) peripety
  B) exposition
  C) denouement
  D) catharsis
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 669:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Literary Appreciation

  'There is something new, for example, about my hands, a certain way of picking up my pipe or my fork. Or else it is the fork which now has a certain way of getting itself picked up, I don't know. Just now, when I was on the point of coming into my room, I stooped short because I felt in my hand a cold object which attracted my attention by means of a sort of personality. I opened my hand and looked I was simply holding the door knob'

  Nausea by Jean Paul Sartre

  The style of writing in the passage can be described as

  Options:
  A) introspective
  B) confused
  C) confrontational
  D) passive
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 670:

  In Angira'sExpelled,the poet persona laments the

  Options:
  A) Loss of his property
  B) Harrowing experiences from the stranger's visit
  C) presence of the strangers
  D) Problem of his family and their economic implications
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  The correct answer is D .