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 71: Based on Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and The Sea, the attitude of the old man towards nature is quite Options:
  A) warm and friendly
  B) cautious and skeptical
  C) hostile and callous
  D) careless and indifferent
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 72: This question is based on Frank Ogodo Ogbeche's Harvest of Corruption.Aloho is employed as Chief's Options:
  A) Personal Assistant
  B) Protocol Officer
  C) Legal Adviser
  D) Secretary
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 73:

  This question is based on Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer.

  The writer's satire is most biting when applied to

  Options:
  A) the Hastings
  B) Mr. Hardcastle
  C) Young Marlow
  D) Mrs. Hardcastle
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 74: A funny incident within a serious situation is Options:
  A) comedy
  B) comic relief
  C) tragic comedy
  D) tragic hero
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 75:

  This question is based on J.C De Graft Sons and Daughters.

  'I simply don't understand what's the matter with everybody today. everybody let me down, and ......

  Where does the play takes place

  Options:
  A) In George's place
  B) In Aunt's place
  C) In Ofosu's place
  D) On the street
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 76: This question is based on General Literary Principles.Satire employs the use of Options:
  A) onomatopeia
  B) irony
  C) synecdoche
  D) melancholy
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 77:

  'Vanished. Transported. Utterly transmuted.

  I knew it. i knew i stood in the presence of God...

  This statement of Ecstasy was made in The Trials Of Brother Jero by

  Options:
  A) Brother Jero
  B) Chume
  C) the old prophet
  D) the unnamed penitent woman
  E) the unnamed member of parliament.
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  The correct answer is E .
• Question 78: 'The gates of polished reed closes behind them and the west is let in.'The above are the last two lines of David Rubadins ' Stanley meets Mutesa' and they suggest that Options:
  A) the sun setb after the arrival of Stanley
  B) Stanley was shut out of Western civilization
  C) Stanley symbolizes the advert of colonization
  D) Stanley was very well recieved
  E) Stanley thought he would be eaten up by the natives.
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 79:

  What does the playwright do?

  Options:
  A) Writes a poem
  B) Writes a book
  C) Writes a play
  D) Directs a drama
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 80:

  This question is based on S.I. Osammor's The Triumph of the Water Lily.

  The language of the novel is generally

  Options:
  A) entertaining
  B) educative
  C) romantic
  D) reportive
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  The correct answer is B .