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WAEC - Literature In English (2003)

1
A narrative in the oral tradition that may include legends and fables is a
Answer
(C)
folkale
2
A short poem written on a tomb is a/an
Answer
(D)
epitaph
3
Pick the odd item
Answer
(C)
stanza
4
A long narrative which depicts country life is a/an
Answer
(D)
pastoral
5
One of the following is not an African poet
Answer
(A)
lenrie Peters
6
A recurrent image in a literary work that illustrates theme is
Answer
(C)
motif
7
Diction is writers choice of
Answer
(D)
words
8
''Enjambment'' is the poetic term referring to the use of
Answer
(A)
run-on-lines
9
Stanza refers to..in a poem
Answer
(D)
divisions
10
''Life is but an empty dream'' illustrates the use of
Answer
(D)
allusion
11
The term used for the unraveling of the complications of the plot at the end of a literary works is
Answer
(B)
denouement
12
Pick the odd item
Answer
(C)
metaphor
13
The feelings and attitudes of a writer are conveyed by
Answer
(A)
mood
14
A author's story about himself is a/an
Answer
(D)
autobiography
15
UNSEEN PROSE AND POETRY

Read the extract below and answer the question

His mind flitted back memory lane. He remembered how time walked quietly in. like a thief in the night and then put a sword in the heart of the land. He remembered all his life's sweat. drained away by the strife.He remembered his wife and two lovely kids, all slain pitilessly by the beasts in khaki. He remembered his only sister, a tender rose, defiled in turns by them and then slaughtered like a lamb upon the ritual table.

The mood of the extract is one of
Answer
(A)
gloom
16
UNSEEN PROSE AND POETRY

Read the extract below and answer the question

His mind flitted back memory lane. He remembered how time walked quietly in. like a thief in the night and then put a sword in the heart of the land. He remembered all his life's sweat. drained away by the strife.He remembered his wife and two lovely kids, all slain pitilessly by the beasts in khaki. He remembered his only sister, a tender rose, defiled in turns by them and then slaughtered like a lamb upon the ritual table.

The extract is about
Answer
(C)
the tragedy of war
17
UNSEEN PROSE AND POETRY

Read the extract below and answer the question

His mind flitted back memory lane. He remembered how time walked quietly in. like a thief in the night and then put a sword in the heart of the land. He remembered all his life's sweat. drained away by the strife.He remembered his wife and two lovely kids, all slain pitilessly by the beasts in khaki. He remembered his only sister, a tender rose, defiled in turns by them and then slaughtered like a lamb upon the ritual table.

The dominant literary device used is
Answer
(B)
repetition
18
UNSEEN PROSE AND POETRY

Read the extract below and answer the question

His mind flitted back memory lane. He remembered how time walked quietly in. like a thief in the night and then put a sword in the heart of the land. He remembered all his life's sweat. drained away by the strife.He remembered his wife and two lovely kids, all slain pitilessly by the beasts in khaki. He remembered his only sister, a tender rose, defiled in turns by them and then slaughtered like a lamb upon the ritual table.

''....a tender rose'' is an example of a/an
Answer
(D)
metaphor
19
UNSEEN PROSE AND POETRY

Read the extract below and answer the question

His mind flitted back memory lane. He remembered how time walked quietly in. like a thief in the night and then put a sword in the heart of the land. He remembered all his life's sweat. drained away by the strife.He remembered his wife and two lovely kids, all slain pitilessly by the beasts in khaki. He remembered his only sister, a tender rose, defiled in turns by them and then slaughtered like a lamb upon the ritual table.

''.....put a sword in the heart of the land'' implies
Answer
(D)
destruction.
20
Read the poem and answer the question

Move him into the sun
Gently its touch awoke him once,
At home, whispering of fields unsown
Always it woke him even in France
Until this morning and this snow
If anything might rouse him now
This kind old sun will know
Think how it wakes the seeds
Woke,once, the clays of a cold star
Are limbs, so dear achieved, are sides,
Full-nerved still warm too hard to stir?
Was it for this the clay grew tall?
O what made fatuous sunbeams toil
To break earth's sleep at all?

The poem is a/an
Answer
(A)
elegy
21
Read the poem and answer the question

Move him into the sun
Gently its touch awoke him once,
At home, whispering of fields unsown
Always it woke him even in France
Until this morning and this snow
If anything might rouse him now
This kind old sun will know
Think how it wakes the seeds
Woke,once, the clays of a cold star
Are limbs, so dear achieved, are sides,
Full-nerved still warm too hard to stir?
Was it for this the clay grew tall?
O what made fatuous sunbeams toil
To break earth's sleep at all?

One of the dominant literary devices used in the poem is
Answer
(A)
hyperbole
22
Read the poem and answer the question

Move him into the sun
Gently its touch awoke him once,
At home, whispering of fields unsown
Always it woke him even in France
Until this morning and this snow
If anything might rouse him now
This kind old sun will know
Think how it wakes the seeds
Woke,once, the clays of a cold star
Are limbs, so dear achieved, are sides,
Full-nerved still warm too hard to stir?
Was it for this the clay grew tall?
O what made fatuous sunbeams toil
To break earth's sleep at all?

The theme of the poem is the ...of life
Answer
(D)
futility
23
Read the poem and answer the question

Move him into the sun
Gently its touch awoke him once,
At home, whispering of fields unsown
Always it woke him even in France
Until this morning and this snow
If anything might rouse him now
This kind old sun will know
Think how it wakes the seeds
Woke,once, the clays of a cold star
Are limbs, so dear achieved, are sides,
Full-nerved still warm too hard to stir?
Was it for this the clay grew tall?
O what made fatuous sunbeams toil
To break earth's sleep at all?

The mood in the last two lines is one of
Answer
(B)
lament
24
Read the poem and answer the question

Move him into the sun
Gently its touch awoke him once,
At home, whispering of fields unsown
Always it woke him even in France
Until this morning and this snow
If anything might rouse him now
This kind old sun will know
Think how it wakes the seeds
Woke,once, the clays of a cold star
Are limbs, so dear achieved, are sides,
Full-nerved still warm too hard to stir?
Was it for this the clay grew tall?
O what made fatuous sunbeams toil
To break earth's sleep at all?

The dominant images are associated with
Answer
(A)
Death
25
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: The Merchant of Venice

Read the extract below and answer the question

A : My people do already know my mind,
And will acknowledge you and Jessica
In place of Lord Bassanio and myself
So fare thee till we shall meet again

B : Fair thoughts and happy hours attend on you
(Act 111, sc IV)

Speaker A is
Answer
(B)
Gratiano
26
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: The Merchant of Venice

Read the extract below and answer the question

A : My people do already know my mind,
And will acknowledge you and Jessica
In place of Lord Bassanio and myself
So fare thee till we shall meet again

B : Fair thoughts and happy hours attend on you
(Act 111, sc IV)

Speaker B is
Answer
(B)
Solerio
27
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: The Merchant of Venice

Read the extract below and answer the question

A : My people do already know my mind,
And will acknowledge you and Jessica
In place of Lord Bassanio and myself
So fare thee till we shall meet again

B : Fair thoughts and happy hours attend on you
(Act 111, sc IV)

From the extract speaker A intends
Answer
(B)
eloping to the city
28
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: The Merchant of Venice

Read the extract below and answer the question

A : My people do already know my mind,
And will acknowledge you and Jessica
In place of Lord Bassanio and myself
So fare thee till we shall meet again

B : Fair thoughts and happy hours attend on you
(Act 111, sc IV)

The person addressed is in the company of
Answer
(C)
Bassanio
29
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: The Merchant of Venice

Read the extract below and answer the question

A : My people do already know my mind,
And will acknowledge you and Jessica
In place of Lord Bassanio and myself
So fare thee till we shall meet again

B : Fair thoughts and happy hours attend on you
(Act 111, sc IV)

''My people'' refers to the speaker's
Answer
(A)
friends
30
Read the extract below and answer the question

As much as I deserve: why, that's the lady
I do in birth deserve her, and in fortunes
In graces, and in qualities of breeding
But more than these, in love I do deserves
(Act 11, sc VII)

The speaker is
Answer
(C)
Morocco
31
Read the extract below and answer the question

As much as I deserve: why, that's the lady
I do in birth deserve her, and in fortunes
In graces, and in qualities of breeding
But more than these, in love I do deserves
(Act 11, sc VII)

The subject of the extract is
Answer
(B)
the choice of caskets
32
Read the extract below and answer the question

As much as I deserve: why, that's the lady
I do in birth deserve her, and in fortunes
In graces, and in qualities of breeding
But more than these, in love I do deserves
(Act 11, sc VII)

After the speech, the speaker
Answer
(C)
fails in his venture
33
Read the extract below and answer the question

As much as I deserve: why, that's the lady
I do in birth deserve her, and in fortunes
In graces, and in qualities of breeding
But more than these, in love I do deserves
(Act 11, sc VII)

''The lady'' in the extract refers to
Answer
(D)
Portia
34
Read the extract below and answer the question

As much as I deserve: why, that's the lady
I do in birth deserve her, and in fortunes
In graces, and in qualities of breeding
But more than these, in love I do deserves
(Act 11, sc VII)

The speech is an example of a/an
Answer
(A)
mnologue
35
Read the extract below and answer the question
.....I owe you much, and like a wilful youth
That which I owe is lost: but if you please
To shoot another arrow that self way
which you did shoot the first.
And thankfully rest debtor for the first
(Act 1 sc 1)

The speaker is
Answer
(C)
Bassanio
36
Read the extract below and answer the question
.....I owe you much, and like a wilful youth
That which I owe is lost: but if you please
To shoot another arrow that self way
which you did shoot the first.
And thankfully rest debtor for the first
(Act 1 sc 1)

The person addressed is
Answer
(A)
Antonio
37

This extract is from William Shakeseare's The Merchant of Venice

Read the extract below and answer the question
.....I owe you much, and like a wilful youth
That which I owe is lost: but if you please
To shoot another arrow that self way
which you did shoot the first.
And thankfully rest debtor for the first
(Act 1 sc 1)

The speaker intends to

Answer
(B)
raise money for suit
38
Read the extract below and answer the question
.....I owe you much, and like a wilful youth
That which I owe is lost: but if you please
To shoot another arrow that self way
which you did shoot the first.
And thankfully rest debtor for the first
(Act 1 sc 1)

The first line of the extract illustrates
Answer
(D)
simile
39

This question is based on William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice

Read the extract below and answer the question
.....I owe you much, and like a wilful youth
That which I owe is lost: but if you please
To shoot another arrow that self way
which you did shoot the first.
And thankfully rest debtor for the first
(Act 1 sc 1)

The underlined expression is an example of

Answer
(C)
metaphor
40
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.....Thus ornament is but the guilded shore
To a most dangerous sea...........
The seeming truth which cunning times put on
To entrap the wisest. Therefore thou gaudy gold
Hard food for Midas. I will none of thee.....
(Act 111 sc 11)

The speaker is
Answer
(C)
Bassanio