WAEC - Literature In English (2013)
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UNSEEN PROSE AND POETRY
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As they trooped off down the field with their sullen dogs, the farmer started the tractor up and the cutter blade blurred into life
Left alone, Grooby sank into a shocked stupor. His mind whirled around like a fly that dared not alight. A blank vacancy held him. He seemed unable to move, even to wipe away the sweat that collected in his eyebrows and leaked down into his eyes. He sensed that the sun had settled over the earth, so that the air was actually burning gas. He watched the tractor dwindle in the bottom of the field, as if it were melting into a glittering muddle in the haze.
''...the cutter blade blurred into life''.
The above expression appeals to the sense of
Read the poem and answer the question
As they trooped off down the field with their sullen dogs, the farmer started the tractor up and the cutter blade blurred into life
Left alone, Grooby sank into a shocked stupor. His mind whirled around like a fly that dared not alight. A blank vacancy held him. He seemed unable to move, even to wipe away the sweat that collected in his eyebrows and leaked down into his eyes. He sensed that the sun had settled over the earth, so that the air was actually burning gas. He watched the tractor dwindle in the bottom of the field, as if it were melting into a glittering muddle in the haze.
''...the cutter blade blurred into life''.
The above expression appeals to the sense of
Answer
(A)
hearing
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UNSEEN PROSE AND POETRY
Read the poem and answer the question
As they trooped off down the field with their sullen dogs, the farmer started the tractor up and the cutter blade blurred into life
Left alone, Grooby sank into a shocked stupor. His mind whirled around like a fly that dared not alight. A blank vacancy held him. He seemed unable to move, even to wipe away the sweat that collected in his eyebrows and leaked down into his eyes. He sensed that the sun had settled over the earth, so that the air was actually burning gas. He watched the tractor dwindle in the bottom of the field, as if it were melting into a glittering muddle in the haze.
''The air was actually burning gas'' is a
Read the poem and answer the question
As they trooped off down the field with their sullen dogs, the farmer started the tractor up and the cutter blade blurred into life
Left alone, Grooby sank into a shocked stupor. His mind whirled around like a fly that dared not alight. A blank vacancy held him. He seemed unable to move, even to wipe away the sweat that collected in his eyebrows and leaked down into his eyes. He sensed that the sun had settled over the earth, so that the air was actually burning gas. He watched the tractor dwindle in the bottom of the field, as if it were melting into a glittering muddle in the haze.
''The air was actually burning gas'' is a
Answer
(C)
metaphor
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UNSEEN PROSE AND POETRY
Read the poem and answer the question
As they trooped off down the field with their sullen dogs, the farmer started the tractor up and the cutter blade blurred into life
Left alone, Grooby sank into a shocked stupor. His mind whirled around like a fly that dared not alight. A blank vacancy held him. He seemed unable to move, even to wipe away the sweat that collected in his eyebrows and leaked down into his eyes. He sensed that the sun had settled over the earth, so that the air was actually burning gas. He watched the tractor dwindle in the bottom of the field, as if it were melting into a glittering muddle in the haze.
The diction conveys a feeling of
Read the poem and answer the question
As they trooped off down the field with their sullen dogs, the farmer started the tractor up and the cutter blade blurred into life
Left alone, Grooby sank into a shocked stupor. His mind whirled around like a fly that dared not alight. A blank vacancy held him. He seemed unable to move, even to wipe away the sweat that collected in his eyebrows and leaked down into his eyes. He sensed that the sun had settled over the earth, so that the air was actually burning gas. He watched the tractor dwindle in the bottom of the field, as if it were melting into a glittering muddle in the haze.
The diction conveys a feeling of
Answer
(B)
helplessness
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UNSEEN PROSE AND POETRY
Read the poem and answer the question
As they trooped off down the field with their sullen dogs, the farmer started the tractor up and the cutter blade blurred into life
Left alone, Grooby sank into a shocked stupor. His mind whirled around like a fly that dared not alight. A blank vacancy held him. He seemed unable to move, even to wipe away the sweat that collected in his eyebrows and leaked down into his eyes. He sensed that the sun had settled over the earth, so that the air was actually burning gas. He watched the tractor dwindle in the bottom of the field, as if it were melting into a glittering muddle in the haze.
The expression ''like fly that dared not alight'' is a/an
Read the poem and answer the question
As they trooped off down the field with their sullen dogs, the farmer started the tractor up and the cutter blade blurred into life
Left alone, Grooby sank into a shocked stupor. His mind whirled around like a fly that dared not alight. A blank vacancy held him. He seemed unable to move, even to wipe away the sweat that collected in his eyebrows and leaked down into his eyes. He sensed that the sun had settled over the earth, so that the air was actually burning gas. He watched the tractor dwindle in the bottom of the field, as if it were melting into a glittering muddle in the haze.
The expression ''like fly that dared not alight'' is a/an
Answer
(A)
simile
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UNSEEN PROSE AND POETRY
Read the poem and answer the question
As they trooped off down the field with their sullen dogs, the farmer started the tractor up and the cutter blade blurred into life
Left alone, Grooby sank into a shocked stupor. His mind whirled around like a fly that dared not alight. A blank vacancy held him. He seemed unable to move, even to wipe away the sweat that collected in his eyebrows and leaked down into his eyes. He sensed that the sun had settled over the earth, so that the air was actually burning gas. He watched the tractor dwindle in the bottom of the field, as if it were melting into a glittering muddle in the haze.
The setting of the extract is
Read the poem and answer the question
As they trooped off down the field with their sullen dogs, the farmer started the tractor up and the cutter blade blurred into life
Left alone, Grooby sank into a shocked stupor. His mind whirled around like a fly that dared not alight. A blank vacancy held him. He seemed unable to move, even to wipe away the sweat that collected in his eyebrows and leaked down into his eyes. He sensed that the sun had settled over the earth, so that the air was actually burning gas. He watched the tractor dwindle in the bottom of the field, as if it were melting into a glittering muddle in the haze.
The setting of the extract is
Answer
(B)
midday
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I'm going soldering:
Mad the rhythm runs
With drumming and with trumpeting
And glory of the guns.
I've come home again:
I know that blood is red;
I know how sodden falls the rain
Where flesh lies dead.
The theme of the poem is best described as the
I'm going soldering:
Mad the rhythm runs
With drumming and with trumpeting
And glory of the guns.
I've come home again:
I know that blood is red;
I know how sodden falls the rain
Where flesh lies dead.
The theme of the poem is best described as the
Answer
(D)
reality of war
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Read the poem and answer the question
I'm going soldering:
Mad the rhythm runs
With drumming and with trumpeting
And glory of the guns.
I've come home again:
I know that blood is red;
I know how sodden falls the rain
Where flesh lies dead.
''Mad the rhythm runs'' is an example of
I'm going soldering:
Mad the rhythm runs
With drumming and with trumpeting
And glory of the guns.
I've come home again:
I know that blood is red;
I know how sodden falls the rain
Where flesh lies dead.
''Mad the rhythm runs'' is an example of
Answer
(D)
inversion
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Read the poem and answer the question
I'm going soldering:
Mad the rhythm runs
With drumming and with trumpeting
And glory of the guns.
I've come home again:
I know that blood is red;
I know how sodden falls the rain
Where flesh lies dead.
The dominant sound device in the second stanza is
I'm going soldering:
Mad the rhythm runs
With drumming and with trumpeting
And glory of the guns.
I've come home again:
I know that blood is red;
I know how sodden falls the rain
Where flesh lies dead.
The dominant sound device in the second stanza is
Answer
(B)
assonance
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Read the poem and answer the question
I'm going soldering:
Mad the rhythm runs
With drumming and with trumpeting
And glory of the guns.
I've come home again:
I know that blood is red;
I know how sodden falls the rain
Where flesh lies dead.
The two contrasting moods in the poem is are
I'm going soldering:
Mad the rhythm runs
With drumming and with trumpeting
And glory of the guns.
I've come home again:
I know that blood is red;
I know how sodden falls the rain
Where flesh lies dead.
The two contrasting moods in the poem is are
Answer
(C)
excitement and disappointment
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: The Tempest
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Thou liest, most ignorant monster! I am in case to justle a constable. Why, thou deboshed fish, thou, was there ever man a coward that hath drunk so much sack as I today. Wilt thou tell a monstrous lie, being but half a fish and half a monster?
(act 111, scene two lines 23-27)
The speaker is
Read the extract and answer the question
Thou liest, most ignorant monster! I am in case to justle a constable. Why, thou deboshed fish, thou, was there ever man a coward that hath drunk so much sack as I today. Wilt thou tell a monstrous lie, being but half a fish and half a monster?
(act 111, scene two lines 23-27)
The speaker is
Answer
(C)
Trinculo
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: The Tempest
Read the extract and answer the question
Thou liest, most ignorant monster! I am in case to justle a constable. Why, thou deboshed fish, thou, was there ever man a coward that hath drunk so much sack as I today. Wilt thou tell a monstrous lie, being but half a fish and half a monster?
(act 111, scene two lines 23-27)
The character addressed is
Read the extract and answer the question
Thou liest, most ignorant monster! I am in case to justle a constable. Why, thou deboshed fish, thou, was there ever man a coward that hath drunk so much sack as I today. Wilt thou tell a monstrous lie, being but half a fish and half a monster?
(act 111, scene two lines 23-27)
The character addressed is
Answer
(D)
Caliban
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: The Tempest
Read the extract and answer the question
Thou liest, most ignorant monster! I am in case to justle a constable. Why, thou deboshed fish, thou, was there ever man a coward that hath drunk so much sack as I today. Wilt thou tell a monstrous lie, being but half a fish and half a monster?
(act 111, scene two lines 23-27)
The ''lie'' is that the speaker is a/an
Read the extract and answer the question
Thou liest, most ignorant monster! I am in case to justle a constable. Why, thou deboshed fish, thou, was there ever man a coward that hath drunk so much sack as I today. Wilt thou tell a monstrous lie, being but half a fish and half a monster?
(act 111, scene two lines 23-27)
The ''lie'' is that the speaker is a/an
Answer
(B)
coward
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: The Tempest
Read the extract and answer the question
Thou liest, most ignorant monster! I am in case to justle a constable. Why, thou deboshed fish, thou, was there ever man a coward that hath drunk so much sack as I today. Wilt thou tell a monstrous lie, being but half a fish and half a monster?
(act 111, scene two lines 23-27)
The addressee asks that the speaker be
Read the extract and answer the question
Thou liest, most ignorant monster! I am in case to justle a constable. Why, thou deboshed fish, thou, was there ever man a coward that hath drunk so much sack as I today. Wilt thou tell a monstrous lie, being but half a fish and half a monster?
(act 111, scene two lines 23-27)
The addressee asks that the speaker be
Answer
(D)
bitten to death
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: The Tempest
Read the extract and answer the question
Thou liest, most ignorant monster! I am in case to justle a constable. Why, thou deboshed fish, thou, was there ever man a coward that hath drunk so much sack as I today. Wilt thou tell a monstrous lie, being but half a fish and half a monster?
(act 111, scene two lines 23-27)
Later in the scene the addressee proposes a plot to
Read the extract and answer the question
Thou liest, most ignorant monster! I am in case to justle a constable. Why, thou deboshed fish, thou, was there ever man a coward that hath drunk so much sack as I today. Wilt thou tell a monstrous lie, being but half a fish and half a monster?
(act 111, scene two lines 23-27)
Later in the scene the addressee proposes a plot to
Answer
(B)
kill prospero
35
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You are three men of sin, whom Destiny -
That hath to instrument this lower world
And what is in't - the never-surfeited sea
Hath caused to belch up you; and on this island,
Where man doth not inhabit - you 'mongst men
Being most unfit to live.
(Act 111, scene three lines 53-58)
The speaker is
You are three men of sin, whom Destiny -
That hath to instrument this lower world
And what is in't - the never-surfeited sea
Hath caused to belch up you; and on this island,
Where man doth not inhabit - you 'mongst men
Being most unfit to live.
(Act 111, scene three lines 53-58)
The speaker is
Answer
(C)
Ariel
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You are three men of sin, whom Destiny -
That hath to instrument this lower world
And what is in't - the never-surfeited sea
Hath caused to belch up you; and on this island,
Where man doth not inhabit - you 'mongst men
Being most unfit to live.
(Act 111, scene three lines 53-58)
The ''three men of sin'' are
You are three men of sin, whom Destiny -
That hath to instrument this lower world
And what is in't - the never-surfeited sea
Hath caused to belch up you; and on this island,
Where man doth not inhabit - you 'mongst men
Being most unfit to live.
(Act 111, scene three lines 53-58)
The ''three men of sin'' are
Answer
(B)
Alonso, Antonio and Sebastian
37
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You are three men of sin, whom Destiny -
That hath to instrument this lower world
And what is in't - the never-surfeited sea
Hath caused to belch up you; and on this island,
Where man doth not inhabit - you 'mongst men
Being most unfit to live.
(Act 111, scene three lines 53-58)
In the first line, 'Destiny' is
You are three men of sin, whom Destiny -
That hath to instrument this lower world
And what is in't - the never-surfeited sea
Hath caused to belch up you; and on this island,
Where man doth not inhabit - you 'mongst men
Being most unfit to live.
(Act 111, scene three lines 53-58)
In the first line, 'Destiny' is
Answer
(B)
personification
38
Read the extract and answer the question
You are three men of sin, whom Destiny -
That hath to instrument this lower world
And what is in't - the never-surfeited sea
Hath caused to belch up you; and on this island,
Where man doth not inhabit - you 'mongst men
Being most unfit to live.
(Act 111, scene three lines 53-58)
The speaker immediately
You are three men of sin, whom Destiny -
That hath to instrument this lower world
And what is in't - the never-surfeited sea
Hath caused to belch up you; and on this island,
Where man doth not inhabit - you 'mongst men
Being most unfit to live.
(Act 111, scene three lines 53-58)
The speaker immediately
Answer
(A)
reports them to Prospero
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Read the extract and answer the question
You are three men of sin, whom Destiny -
That hath to instrument this lower world
And what is in't - the never-surfeited sea
Hath caused to belch up you; and on this island,
Where man doth not inhabit - you 'mongst men
Being most unfit to live.
(Act 111, scene three lines 53-58)
A character in the scene whom Prospero admires is
You are three men of sin, whom Destiny -
That hath to instrument this lower world
And what is in't - the never-surfeited sea
Hath caused to belch up you; and on this island,
Where man doth not inhabit - you 'mongst men
Being most unfit to live.
(Act 111, scene three lines 53-58)
A character in the scene whom Prospero admires is
Answer
(B)
Gonzalo
42
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Look thou be true. Do not give dalliance
Took much the rein. The strongest oaths are straw
To the fire i' the blood. Be more abstemious.
Or else, good night your vow!
(Act IV, scene one lines 51-54)
The literary device in lines 52 and 53 is
Look thou be true. Do not give dalliance
Took much the rein. The strongest oaths are straw
To the fire i' the blood. Be more abstemious.
Or else, good night your vow!
(Act IV, scene one lines 51-54)
The literary device in lines 52 and 53 is
Answer
(C)
metaphor
44
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Look thou be true. Do not give dalliance
Took much the rein. The strongest oaths are straw
To the fire i' the blood. Be more abstemious.
Or else, good night your vow!
(Act IV, scene one lines 51-54)
The ''oath'' referred to in the scene is
Look thou be true. Do not give dalliance
Took much the rein. The strongest oaths are straw
To the fire i' the blood. Be more abstemious.
Or else, good night your vow!
(Act IV, scene one lines 51-54)
The ''oath'' referred to in the scene is
Answer
(B)
Ferdinand shall not have intimate contact with Miranda
45
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Oh, a Cherubin
Thou wast that did preserve me. Thou didst smile,
Infused with a fortitude from heaven,
When I have decked the sea with drops full salt.
Under my burthen groaned; which raised in me
An undergoing stomach, to bear up
Against what should ensue
(Act 1 scene two lines 154-161)
The speaker is
Oh, a Cherubin
Thou wast that did preserve me. Thou didst smile,
Infused with a fortitude from heaven,
When I have decked the sea with drops full salt.
Under my burthen groaned; which raised in me
An undergoing stomach, to bear up
Against what should ensue
(Act 1 scene two lines 154-161)
The speaker is
Answer
(C)
Prospero
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