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:

  Read the poem and answer the questionMove him into the sun

  Gently its touch awoke him once,

  At home, whispering of fields unsown

  Always it woke him even in France

  Until this morning and this snow

  If anything might rouse him now

  This kind old sun will know

  Think how it wakes the seeds

  Woke,once, the clays of a cold star

  Are limbs, so dear achieved, are sides,

  Full-nerved still warm too hard to stir?

  Was it for this the clay grew tall?

  O what made fatuous sunbeams toil

  To break earth's sleep at all?The mood in the last two lines is one of

  Options:
  A) surprise
  B) lament
  C) uncertainty
  D) indifference
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 662:

  'O she doth teach the torches to burn bright!

  It seems she hangs upon the check of night

  As a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear'

  Romeo and JulietIn these lines Juliet's beauty is presented

  Options:
  A) in contrast to the dark night
  B) as a source of envy to all
  C) in terms of riches
  D) as being unparalleled in the kingdom.
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 663:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  'From Debbie's room comes the sound of the typewriter. It is an old mechanical typewriter, its noises are metallic and clicking. It chitters onto the end of a line musical, or almost musical 'cling' of the little bell.'

  A.S Byatt, 'Artwork'

  A striking figure of speech used in the passage above is

  Options:
  A) onomatopoeia
  B) zeugma
  C) assonance
  D) paradox
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 664:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  An elegy is a poem that mourns for the

  Options:
  A) deceased
  B) bereaved
  C) accused
  D) king
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 665:

  This question is based on Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge.

  One of the main features that sustains the reader's interest in the novel is the

  Options:
  A) creation and resolution of conflicts
  B) sale of Henchard's wife
  C) exploration of comic plot
  D) wheat business in Casterbridge
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 666:

  The second stanza of Awonoor's Anvil and the Hammer ________

  Options:
  A) deals with the conflict between African traditions and westernisation
  B) deals with the disregard for African tradition
  C) offers solution to the conflict between African traditions and westernisation
  D) advocates for a radical change in the perception of Africans about their culture
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 667:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore so do our minutes hasten to their end.'

  In the lines above, Shakespeare is thinking of the

  Options:
  A) passing of time and shortness of life
  B) swift passing of waves from shore to shore
  C) passing of time from hours to minutes and second
  D) movement of pebbles to the shore
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 668:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  The ode and the elegy are examples of

  Options:
  A) sonnet
  B) lyrical poetry
  C) narrative poetry
  D) blank verse
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 669: This question is based on General Literary Principles.In a tragic play the device used to reduce tension is known as Options:
  A) comic relief
  B) rhetoric
  C) anti-climax
  D) climax
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 670:

  This question is based on Zaynab Alkali's The Stillborn.

  The tell-tale of Li's going to the dance is a

  Options:
  A) burnt finger
  B) broken promise
  C) torn dress
  D) broken fence
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  The correct answer is B .