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 761: This question is based on selected poems from Ker, D. et al (eds.):New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ed.):Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds):A selection of African poetry; Umukoro, M. et al (eds.): Exam Focus Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A.E. et al (eds.); Longman Examination Guides; Nwoga, D.I.(ed.); West Africa Verse and Adeoti G.: Naked Soles
  In Lawrence's Bat the poet's attitude to bat is one of Options:
  A) fear
  B) sarcasm
  C) contempt
  D) flattering
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 762: "Carrying a heavy bundle of tightly wrapped bits and pieces of junk drooping over his face" The excerpt above exemplifies _______? Options:
  A) Irony
  B) synedoche
  C) symbolism
  D) euphemism
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 763:

  An extended fictional narrative which is realistic is known as a

  Options:
  A) short story
  B) diary
  C) novella
  D) novel
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 764: This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
  A play is called a comedy when Options:
  A) there is peaceful atmosphere and laughter in it
  B) nobody dies in it
  C) there is no serious quarrel in it
  D) there is a happy resolution of contradictions
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 765:

  'I too crossed the rivers, and the virgin ambushes of the forests,

  Where Lianas hung down, more treacherous than serpents'.

  In the eyes of the writer of these lines, the word 'Forests' stands for

  Options:
  A) friendliness
  B) insecurity
  C) innocence
  D) fertility
  E) safety.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 766: This question is based on William Shakespeare's Hamlet.How does Question Gertrude finally die? Options:
  A) Through strangulation
  B) By venomed sword
  C) from poisoned drink
  D) of snake bite
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 767:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  Going up the river was like traveling back to the earliest beginnings of the world when vegetation rioted on the earth and the big trees were kings An empty stream, a great silence, an impenetrable forest. The air was warm, thick, heavy, sluggish. '

  Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad.

  The landscape described in the passage above is

  Options:
  A) formidable
  B) friendly
  C) hostile
  D) overpowering
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 768:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  The insertion of material unrelated or distantly related to the insertion of material unrelated or distantly related to the specific subject under discussion in a given work is called

  Options:
  A) digression
  B) flashback
  C) regression
  D) reverie
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 769: This question is based on General Literary Principles
  A poetic device in which an idea in a line runs into another is called Options:
  A) rhyme scheme
  B) enjambment
  C) end rhyme
  D) pathos
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 770: In a work of Literature, the hero is one Options:
  A) whose name is mentioned the greatest number of times in the text
  B) who is antagonistic to every one else
  C) whose experience provide the central conflict in the work
  D) who dies in the course of the story
  E) who performs brave and heroic deeds.
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  The correct answer is E .