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 911: This question is based on General Literary Appreciation.O! Ceremony,show me but thy worth What is thy soul of adorationThe figure of speech in the lines above is Options:
  A) antithesis
  B) invocation
  C) personification
  D) apostrophe
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 912: This question is based on �Literary Appreciation.'Today's my last day here. I'm done banging my head against the glass ceiling. They think I don't know why they really hired me. They're talking to dad behind my back. Begging for favours. Work permit renewals. Licences. Tax and duty waivers. Contracts and tendersKen Kamoche: A fragile HopeThe technique employed in narrating the excerpt above is Options:
  A) flashback
  B) stream of consciousness
  C) foreshadowing
  D) play-within-the-play
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 913:

  This question is based on Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbirdge.

  The goal of the novel is to expose the

  Options:
  A) effect of poverty on human behaviour
  B) life of debauchery of farmers and sailors
  C) predicament of women
  D) influence of environment and morality in human conduct
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 914:

  This question is based on General Literary Appreciation."I cannot rest from travel: I will

  Drink

  Life to the lees, all times I have

  Enjoyed

  Greatly, have suffered greatly"

  A.L. Tennyson:UlyssesThe lines above inform the reader that the poet

  Options:
  A) is determined to suffer
  B) has his poetic imagination kindled
  C) will cure his sour mood
  D) will not drink much
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 915:
  From the novel; Native Son

  The question is based on Richard Wrights NATIVE SON

  Mr Dalton is of the opinion that Negroes are happier when they are

  Options:
  A) together
  B) servant in the white family
  C) educated
  D) given some respect
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 916:

  Don't panic. Be calm. If you are somehow upset...try to regain your composure.

  The speaker in the excerpt above is

  Options:
  A) hopeless
  B) afraid
  C) confident
  D) uncertain
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 917:

  This question is based on William Golding's Lord of the Flies.

  The island in the novel is a

  Options:
  A) symbol of peace
  B) hide out for children during the war
  C) symbol of innocence
  D) world of abundance
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 918:
  From the novel; Twelfth Night

  This question is based on William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.

  'I'll do my best
  To woo your lady.'
  What is the sincere desire of the person who made the statement above?

  Options:
  A) That she succeeds in winning the love for the master
  B) That her best is good enough to win affection
  C) That she herself becomes the beloved
  D) That she herself wins the love
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 919:

  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 920:

  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 and Nwoga D.I. (ed.): Weast African Verse.

  The subject matter of Wangusa's A Taxi Driver on His Death is

  Options:
  A) the road
  B) death
  C) the vehicle
  D) the driver
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  The correct answer is C .