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 211: This question is based on Frank Ogodo Ogbeche's Harvest of Corruption.From its resolution of conflicts. the play can be described as being Options:
  A) obscene
  B) farcical
  C) comic
  D) didactic
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 212:

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

  Come away, come away, death,

  And in sad cypress let me be laid...

  In the lines above, the character is

  Options:
  A) expressing his unhappiness about death
  B) expressing his preference for a cypress coffin
  C) lamenting over his unreciprocated love
  D) wishing for death to come
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 213:

  'There kneels a jigger, a louse, a weevil, a flea, a bedbug! He is mistletoe, a parasite that lives on the trees of other people's lives!'

  The speaker uses a string of

  Options:
  A) hyperbole
  B) parables
  C) metaphors
  D) riddles
  E) understatements.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 214:

  This question is based on Amma Darko's Faceless.'Ordaley ignored the two young women plating their hair because she didn't want to generate another war with a simple greeting'

  The image depicted in the lines above is

  Options:
  A) ironic
  B) personification
  C) hyperbolic
  D) metaphoric
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 215:

  This question is based on Femi Osofisan's Morountodun.

  ....We have no electric, and we still drink tanwiji from the stream. Many of our children are in jail... We protested and your police mounted expeditions to maim us and reduce our houses to ashes...'

  The images depicted are those of

  Options:
  A) poverty and opulence
  B) opulence and brutality
  C) suffering and depression
  D) suffering and brutality
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 216:

  "You can call me a rebel, but I need a job. That's what matters to me." The repercussion of this statement by Aloho is a pointer to the theme ____

  Options:
  A) Of Corruption
  B) That patience is a virtue
  C) On Unemployment
  D) Of Retributive Justice
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 217: Fletcher's Upon An Honest Man's Fortune encourages people to Options:
  A) accept life as it is
  B) condemn soothsaying
  C) move in the direction of God
  D) accept soothsaying
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 218:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles

  The writing convention in which the events in a narrative are scrambled as they come to the writer's mind without any attempt to arrange them in orderly sequence is called

  Options:
  A) shifting style
  B) narrator's mind style
  C) psycho-consciousness style
  D) stream of consciousness
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 219:

  This question is based on Wole Soyinka's The Trials of Brother Jero.

  Brother Jero displays an act of ingratitude to his master by

  Options:
  A) enticing the French Jehovah witnesses
  B) dispossessing him of his piece of land
  C) conniving with the Cherubims and Seraphims
  D) organizing a deceitful dancing competition
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 220: "Now take this boat business for instance. There is a lot of money to be made in it,but start something, and fools will start shouting slogans at you."Based on Ayi Kwei Armah's , The Beautiful Ones are Not Yet Born, who made the above statement? Options:
  A) Amankwa
  B) Oyo
  C) Koomson
  D) Osagyefo
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  The correct answer is C .