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 81:

  In The Flight to Australia', the following line occurs: 'Tier upon tier it towered, the terrible Apennines'. The figure of speech used in this line is known as

  Options:
  A) alliteration
  B) litotes
  C) exaggeration
  D) parody
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 82:

  This question is based on William Shakespeare's Macbeth.

  The play reaches a turning point when

  Options:
  A) Macduff's wife and children are murdered
  B) Banquo is murdered and Fleance escapes
  C) Duncan is murdered in Macbeth's castle
  D) Macbeth sees the witches a scond time
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 83:

  The process of creating characters and endowing them with certain attitude is ......

  Options:
  A) Action
  B) Character
  C) Characterization
  D) Dramatis personae
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 84: This question is based on �Literary Appreciation.But the towering earth was tired of sitting in one position. She moved, suddenly, and the houses crumbled, the mountains heaved horribly, and the work of million years was lost.'The subject matter of the passage is
  Options:
  A) earthquake
  B) demolition
  C) flood
  D) storm
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 85:
  From the novel; Animal farm

  This question isbased on George Orwell's Animal Farm.

  After the expulsion of Snowball from the farm, the truim virate that ran the farm was composed of

  Options:
  A) Minimus, Napoleon and Squealer
  B) Jesse, Napoleon and Bluebell
  C) Boxer, Old Major and Napoleon
  D) Squealer, Boxer and Napoleon
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 86:

  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.

  Who are they that 'live that the earth may die'in Nyi Osundare's ''They Too Are The Earth''?

  Options:
  A) the beggars sprawled in gutters
  B) The millions who hew wood
  C) People who fritter the forest and harry the hills
  D) Those who hurl water
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 87:

  A structural arrangement of unit of composition by which one element of equal importance with another is similarly placed is called

  Options:
  A) repetition
  B) paradox
  C) refrain
  D) parallelism
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 88: This question is based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
  When Friar Lawrence asks if the bride is ready, he wants to know if Options:
  A) Juliet is prepared
  B) Roseline is prepared
  C) the corpse is ready
  D) the birde is dressed
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 89:

  The idea of metre as used in a literary piece is

  Options:
  A) stanza
  B) rhythm
  C) rhyme
  D) verse
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 90:

  This question is based on General Literary Appreciation.The old man slept in his favourite chair

  The wind ran its fingers through his hair

  He looked like a tree gone dry of sap

  And his hands were dry upon his lapThe rhyme a scheme of the poem above is

  Options:
  A) bbaa
  B) aabb
  C) abab
  D) baba
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  The correct answer is B .