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

  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 662:

  Your head is like a drum that is beaten for spirits
  Your ears are like the fans used for blowing fire.

  The lines above are a good example of_________

  Options:
  A) caricature
  B) ridicule
  C) satire
  D) lampoon
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 663:

  This question is based on BAT.

  Use the excerpt to answer this question.
  "Where light pushes through;
  A sudden turning upon itself of a thing in the air.
  A dip to the water.
  And you think:
  "The swallows are flying so late!"
  Swallows?"

  The dominant poetic device in the excerpt is___

  Options:
  A) Rhetorical question
  B) imagery
  C) Alliteration
  D) Paradox
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 664: Narrative poem indicates that the poet is attempting to Options:
  A) preach a sermon
  B) tell a story
  C) summarize a story
  D) describe a place
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 665:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  A play that tells a single story, has one setting and takes place within a specified period is said to

  Options:
  A) be heavilymoralistic
  B) be clearly cohesive
  C) possess the unities
  D) have tragic elements
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 666:

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

  The story of the play would have been different but for

  Options:
  A) Miss Hardcastle's attitude towards her guests
  B) Mr. Hardcastle's ignorance of Young Marlow's true identity
  C) the insensitivity of Mrs Hardcastle
  D) Tony's misinformation of Young Marlow and Mr. Hastings
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 667:

  This question is based on Literary Appreciation

  'Since you left here my mind longs after there Now in the dark I grope Keenly striving to cope'

  Gbemisola Adeoti: Absence

  The dominant technique in the lines above is

  Options:
  A) irony
  B) rhyme
  C) alliteration
  D) metaphor
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 668:

  These question are based on literary Appreciation.'In those days

  When civilization kicked us in the face

  When holy water slapped our cringing brows. The vulture built in the shadow of their talons.'

  David Diop: The vulture

  The dominant literary device used in the lines above is

  Options:
  A) pun
  B) personification
  C) simile
  D) metaphor
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 669: THIS QUESTION ARE BASED ON SELECTED POEMS FROM D.I. NWOGA'S (ED.): WEST AFRICAN VERSE.
  In Leopold Senghor's 'Long, long you have held between yours hands', the poet addresses himself to Options:
  A) his beloved country for which he yearns
  B) his love
  C) his love interfused with yearning for his country
  D) a not easily discernible subject.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 670: Fletcher's Upon An Honest Man's Fortune encourages people to Options:
  A) accept life as it is
  B) condemn soothsaying
  C) move in the direction of God
  D) accept soothsaying
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  The correct answer is C .