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 681:

  This question is based on William Shakespeare's Hamlet.

  The principal function of the play-within-the-play in Hamlet is to

  Options:
  A) amuse Claudius
  B) confirm the claim of the ghost
  C) divert attention from the main event
  D) create some comic relief in the tragedy
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 682: This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
  'I find no peace, and all my war is done;
  Ifear and hope, I burn and freeze like ice;
  I flee above the wind, yet can I not arise;
  And nought I have and all the world in season'.
  The fight of speech most prominently used in the passage above is Options:
  A) oxymoron
  B) alliteration
  C) euphemism
  D) hyperbole
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 683:

  This question is based on William Shakespeare's Hamlet.'But, howsoever thou pursuest this act,

  Taint not thy mind, nor let thy soul contrive Against thy mother....'

  The ghost exhorts young Hamlet not to kill his mother because

  Options:
  A) his wife is bewitched into falling for Claudius' seduction
  B) the ghost wishes her to be left to the torment of her conscience
  C) the ghost still loves his wife even in death
  D) the young Hamlet will be guilty of matricide
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 684:

  The juxtaposition of two contrasting ideas in a line of poetry is_________?

  Options:
  A) euphemism
  B) synecdoche
  C) catharsis
  D) oxymoron
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 685:

  "The drum is silenced in mid-throb;

  The flute is flung away;

  And ears strain to master the malediction

  Of the thunder."These lines from "For Christopher Okigbo" shows that the main occurrence in the poem is

  Options:
  A) incomprehensible
  B) wortheless
  C) accursed
  D) serene
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 686: This question is based on General Literary Principles.Romantic poetry emphasizes Options:
  A) the beauty of nature
  B) intimate relationships
  C) the love in human nature
  D) the romance in human aspirations
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 687:

  'A trouble shared is a trouble halved' illustrates the use of______

  Options:
  A) Paradox
  B) Cliche
  C) Pun
  D) Metaphor
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 688: This question is based on J.C Graft's Sons and Daughters,Now look what we have:a permanent bloom of ugly paper flowers!'
  The device used by Aaron in the excerpt above is Options:
  A) suspense
  B) rhetorical questions
  C) oxymoron
  D) allegory
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 689:

  'The fair breeze blew
  The white foam flew
  The furrow followed free
  We were the first that ever burst
  Into that silent sea.'

  The dominant figure of speech in the above passage is

  Options:
  A) repitition
  B) alliteration
  C) paradox
  D) rhyme scheme
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 690: This question is based on Literary Appreciation “ How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world ” Anne Frank The Diary of a young GirlThe writer of the passage above is ________? Options:
  A) assertive
  B) retrogressive
  C) optimistic
  D) antagnistic
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  The correct answer is A .