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WAEC - Literature In English (2007)

1
A bitter remark intended to wound the feelings is
Answer
(C)
a sarcasm
2
''She waited for him for a thousand years'' illustrates
Answer
(B)
hyperbole
3
A literary device which expresses meaning in its direct opposite is
Answer
(D)
irony
4
''They also serve who only stand and wait'' illustrates
Answer
(B)
a synecdoche
5
Pick the odd item out of the options listed below
Answer
(D)
Dialogue
6
In drama, ' denouement' is the same as
Answer
(A)
resolution
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Which of the following is NOT true of balled?
Answer
(C)
Tehy tell a popular story
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My heart leaps up when I behold
A rainbow in the sky:
So was it when my life began,
So is it now that I am a man,
So be it when I shall grow
The child is father of the man

The mood of the poem is that of
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(B)
elation
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My heart leaps up when I behold
A rainbow in the sky:
So was it when my life began,
So is it now that I am a man,
So be it when I shall grow
The child is father of the man

The rhyme scheme of the poem is
Answer
(A)
ab cc ac
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My heart leaps up when I behold
A rainbow in the sky:
So was it when my life began,
So is it now that I am a man,
So be it when I shall grow
The child is father of the man

The subject of the extract is
Answer
(C)
the unchanging cycle of nature
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My heart leaps up when I behold
A rainbow in the sky:
So was it when my life began,
So is it now that I am a man,
So be it when I shall grow
The child is father of the man

The literary device used in line 1 is
Answer
(D)
personification
12
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My heart leaps up when I behold
A rainbow in the sky:
So was it when my life began,
So is it now that I am a man,
So be it when I shall grow
The child is father of the man

The literary device used in line 6 is an example of
Answer
(C)
paradox
13
''Forty hands descended on the devilish head'' illustrates
Answer
(B)
synecdoche
14
Pick the odd item out of the options listed below:
Answer
(C)
allusion
15
A deliberate violation of the rules of verification constitutes
Answer
(B)
poetic license
16
A praise poem is
Answer
(D)
an ode
17
Lines of regular recurrence in a poem constitutes
Answer
(B)
a refrain
18
An individual who acts, appears or is referred to as playing a part in a literary work is a
Answer
(B)
character
19
A regular group of lines in poetry constitutes
Answer
(A)
stanza
20
''A black beautiful brilliant bride'' is an example of
Answer
(A)
alliteration
21
UNSEEN POETRY AND PROSE

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Bent-double, like old beggars under sacks,
Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we curse through sludge
Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs,
And towards our distant rest began to trudge,
Men marched asleep, many had lost their boots,
But limped on, blood-shed. All went lame, all blind;
Drunk with fatigue; even deaf to the hoots
Of gas-shells dropping softy behind.

The extract conveys a mood of
Answer
(A)
dejection
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UNSEEN POETRY AND PROSE

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Bent-double, like old beggars under sacks,
Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we curse through sludge
Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs,
And towards our distant rest began to trudge,
Men marched asleep, many had lost their boots,
But limped on, blood-shed. All went lame, all blind;
Drunk with fatigue; even deaf to the hoots
Of gas-shells dropping softy behind.

The dominant figure of speech in the first stanza is
Answer
(B)
simile
23
UNSEEN POETRY AND PROSE

Read the poem and answer the question
Bent-double, like old beggars under sacks,
Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we curse through sludge
Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs,
And towards our distant rest began to trudge,
Men marched asleep, many had lost their boots,
But limped on, blood-shed. All went lame, all blind;
Drunk with fatigue; even deaf to the hoots
Of gas-shells dropping softy behind.

The expression Drunk with fatigue illustrates
Answer
(A)
metaphor
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UNSEEN POETRY AND PROSE

Read the poem and answer the question
Bent-double, like old beggars under sacks,
Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we curse through sludge
Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs,
And towards our distant rest began to trudge,
Men marched asleep, many had lost their boots,
But limped on, blood-shed. All went lame, all blind;
Drunk with fatigue; even deaf to the hoots
Of gas-shells dropping softy behind.

The rhyme scheme of the first stanza is
Answer
(B)
abab
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UNSEEN POETRY AND PROSE

Read the poem and answer the question
Bent-double, like old beggars under sacks,
Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we curse through sludge
Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs,
And towards our distant rest began to trudge,
Men marched asleep, many had lost their boots,
But limped on, blood-shed. All went lame, all blind;
Drunk with fatigue; even deaf to the hoots
Of gas-shells dropping softy behind.

Sludge in the extract means
Answer
(D)
mud
26
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world have been Heathcliff's miseries, and I watched and felt each from the beginning.My great thought in living is himself. If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be. And if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would be turned to a mighty stranger _ is should not seem a part of it. My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods; time will change it, I'm well aware, as winter changes the trees. My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath _ as source of little visible delight, but necessary. Nelly, I am Heathcliff!. He's always, always in my mind _ not as a pleasure to myself, but as my own being....

The speaker's love for Heathcliff is
Answer
(B)
indestructible
27
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world have been Heathcliff's miseries, and I watched and felt each from the beginning.My great thought in living is himself. If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be. And if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would be turned to a mighty stranger _ is should not seem a part of it. My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods; time will change it, I'm well aware, as winter changes the trees. My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath _ as source of little visible delight, but necessary. Nelly, I am Heathcliff!. He's always, always in my mind _ not as a pleasure to myself, but as my own being....

My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath illustrates
Answer
(D)
simile
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world have been Heathcliff's miseries, and I watched and felt each from the beginning.My great thought in living is himself. If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be. And if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would be turned to a mighty stranger _ is should not seem a part of it. My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods; time will change it, I'm well aware, as winter changes the trees. My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath _ as source of little visible delight, but necessary. Nelly, I am Heathcliff!. He's always, always in my mind _ not as a pleasure to myself, but as my own being....

annihilated in the extract implies
Answer
(B)
death
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world have been Heathcliff's miseries, and I watched and felt each from the beginning.My great thought in living is himself. If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be. And if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would be turned to a mighty stranger _ is should not seem a part of it. My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods; time will change it, I'm well aware, as winter changes the trees. My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath _ as source of little visible delight, but necessary. Nelly, I am Heathcliff!. He's always, always in my mind _ not as a pleasure to myself, but as my own being....

If all else perished and he remained illustrates
Answer
(A)
paradox
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world have been Heathcliff's miseries, and I watched and felt each from the beginning.My great thought in living is himself. If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be. And if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would be turned to a mighty stranger _ is should not seem a part of it. My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods; time will change it, I'm well aware, as winter changes the trees. My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath _ as source of little visible delight, but necessary. Nelly, I am Heathcliff!. He's always, always in my mind _ not as a pleasure to myself, but as my own being....

The diction of the extract conveys the speaker's
Answer
(D)
determination
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: Hamlet

Read the extract below and answer the question

A : What, has this thing appeared again tonight?
B : I have seen nothing
(Act I, Scene one, lines 21-22)

Speaker A is
Answer
(D)
Marcellus
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: Hamlet

Read the extract below and answer the question

A : What, has this thing appeared again tonight?
B : I have seen nothing
(Act I, Scene one, lines 21-22)

The speaker is addressing
Answer
(D)
Horatio
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: Hamlet

Read the extract below and answer the question

A : What, has this thing appeared again tonight?
B : I have seen nothing
(Act I, Scene one, lines 21-22)

Speaker B is
Answer
(D)
Bernado
34
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: Hamlet

Read the extract below and answer the question

A : What, has this thing appeared again tonight?
B : I have seen nothing
(Act I, Scene one, lines 21-22)

This thing refers to a
Answer
(A)
ghost
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: Hamlet

Read the extract below and answer the question

A : What, has this thing appeared again tonight?
B : I have seen nothing
(Act I, Scene one, lines 21-22)

The speakers were
Answer
(C)
on a platform in front of the castle
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: Hamlet

Read the extract below and answer the question

A : What, has this thing appeared again tonight?
B : I have seen nothing
(Act I, Scene one, lines 21-22)

Speakers A and B are
Answer
(A)
officers
37
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As thou art to thyself:
Such was the very armour he had on
When he the amitious Norway combated;
So frown'd he once, when , in an angry parle,
He smote the sledded Polacks on the ice....
(Act 1, Scene one, lines 59-63)

The speaker is
Answer
(A)
Horatio
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As thou art to thyself:
Such was the very armour he had on
When he the amitious Norway combated;
So frown'd he once, when , in an angry parle,
He smote the sledded Polacks on the ice....
(Act 1, Scene one, lines 59-63)

The speaker is addressing
Answer
(A)
Marcellus
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As thou art to thyself:
Such was the very armour he had on
When he the amitious Norway combated;
So frown'd he once, when , in an angry parle,
He smote the sledded Polacks on the ice....
(Act 1, Scene one, lines 59-63)

The passage conveys an atmosphere of
Answer
(D)
anxiety
40
The subject of discussion is
Answer
(B)
the ghost
41
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X : What is the matter?
Y : Save yourself, my lord:
The ocean, overpeering of his list,
Eats not the flats with more impetuous haste
Than young Laertes....
(Act 4, Scene five, lines 97-101)

Speaker x IS
Answer
(A)
a messenger
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X : What is the matter?
Y : Save yourself, my lord:
The ocean, overpeering of his list,
Eats not the flats with more impetuous haste
Than young Laertes....
(Act 4, Scene five, lines 97-101)

Speaker Y is
Answer
(C)
an attendant
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X : What is the matter?
Y : Save yourself, my lord:
The ocean, overpeering of his list,
Eats not the flats with more impetuous haste
Than young Laertes....
(Act 4, Scene five, lines 97-101)

The characters who come on the scene shortly afterwards are
Answer
(A)
Laertes and the Danes
44
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X : What is the matter?
Y : Save yourself, my lord:
The ocean, overpeering of his list,
Eats not the flats with more impetuous haste
Than young Laertes....
(Act 4, Scene five, lines 97-101)

The other character present in the scene is
Answer
(A)
the Queen
45
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X : What is the matter?
Y : Save yourself, my lord:
The ocean, overpeering of his list,
Eats not the flats with more impetuous haste
Than young Laertes....
(Act 4, Scene five, lines 97-101)

The King had just requested that all the
Answer
(B)
doors be guarded