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 781:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Literary Appreciation.In the morning Benjamin complained of a headache; at noon he collapsed; by midnight he was as dead and cold as a stone.

  The dominant literary device in the above statement is

  Options:
  A) simile
  B) epigram
  C) climax
  D) anticlimax
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 782: This question is based on General Literary Principles
  The pride that contributes to the fall of a tragic character in a play is known as Options:
  A) harmatia
  B) catharsis
  C) hubris
  D) epistasis
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 783:

  The repetition of a consonant sound in quick succession of sound effect is

  Options:
  A) Alliteration
  B) Pun
  C) onomatopoeia
  D) Assonance
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 784: 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 785: THIS QUESTIONS ARE BASED ON WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE'S ROMEO AND JULIET.In the play, the dramatic significance of Mercutio's character is to Options:
  A) serve as a constract to Romeo's
  B) aid and abet Romeo's passion
  C) annoy Tybalt
  D) persuade Romeo to forget Rosaline.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 786:

  This question is based on selected Poems from Ker, D. et al (eds.): New poetry from African; Syinka, W. (ed.): poems of Black African; 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 and Nwoga, D.I. (ed.): West African Verse.

  The subject matter of Kassam's 'Maji Maji is

  Options:
  A) soci-economic crises
  B) independence
  C) politics
  D) colonialism
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 787:

  This question is based on selected poems from D. Ker, C. Maduka et al (eds.): New poetry from Africa, Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa, K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.

  The disenchantment in Kofi Awoonor's 'Songs of Sorrow' is best explained by the

  Options:
  A) lamentation of the death of a friend
  B) alienation of Africans
  C) discussion of the sad events that afflict Africa
  D) loneliness of the person in the wildernes.s
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 788:

  This question is based on Literary Principles

  ''They came on like a whirlwind, and dashed over the line snorting, kicking, squealing in a compact, pie bald tossing mob of bay,brown, grey backs, eyes staring, necks extended, nostrils red,long tails, streaming. As soon as they had leaped upon the road the thick dust flew upwards from under their hoofs, and within six yards of Glorgio only a brown cloud with vague forms of necks and cruppers rolled by, making the soil tremble..

  Joseph Conrald: Nostromo

  The passage above describes a troop of

  Options:
  A) cows
  B) elephants
  C) camels
  D) horses
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 789:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles and Literary Appreciation.'Hee, thou great Anna! whom three realms obey,

  Dost sometimes counsel take - and sometimes tea.'

  The literary device used in this passage is

  Options:
  A) antithesis
  B) climax
  C) epigram
  D) anticlimax
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 790:

  This question is based on Williams Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.Valentine:

  ....But, like a cloistress, she will veiled walk,

  And water once a day her chamber round

  With eve-offending brine; all this to season...

  The imagery above describes

  Options:
  A) Viola's deep sorrow for her drowned brother
  B) Olivia's deep sorrow over the loss of her brother's love
  C) Viola's grief over a love she cannot show
  D) Olivia's intense grief over the death of her brother
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  The correct answer is D .