WAEC - Literature In English (2016)
21
UNSEEN PROSE AND POETRY
Read the passage and answer the question
He was under the siege of three union executive members.
There was the Secretary standing over him ; there was the Treasurer puffing away at a cigarette; there was the Organiser lounging near the door, a deadpan look plastered on each of their faces like a death-mask.
Incredulous, he sat in a pensive mood. How cloud the others do such a thing? His discontent turned to silent anger that simmered.
''I think it is not right, '' he said, just managing not to explode from his growing anger.
''You sign that sheet, Mr President,'' ordered the Secretary in a barely audible but stern voice.
''Why are you doing this?'' he asked, his voice not giving any hint of the boiling cauldron of screaming anger in his chest.
''Will you sign, Mr President?''
''All right,'' he said, now seething amiably.
He took his pen, picked up the sheet of paper and looked over the signatures. Then he proceeded to tear up the paper into shreds.
The attitude of the writer towards the President is one of
Read the passage and answer the question
He was under the siege of three union executive members.
There was the Secretary standing over him ; there was the Treasurer puffing away at a cigarette; there was the Organiser lounging near the door, a deadpan look plastered on each of their faces like a death-mask.
Incredulous, he sat in a pensive mood. How cloud the others do such a thing? His discontent turned to silent anger that simmered.
''I think it is not right, '' he said, just managing not to explode from his growing anger.
''You sign that sheet, Mr President,'' ordered the Secretary in a barely audible but stern voice.
''Why are you doing this?'' he asked, his voice not giving any hint of the boiling cauldron of screaming anger in his chest.
''Will you sign, Mr President?''
''All right,'' he said, now seething amiably.
He took his pen, picked up the sheet of paper and looked over the signatures. Then he proceeded to tear up the paper into shreds.
The attitude of the writer towards the President is one of
Answer
(C)
disinterest
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UNSEEN PROSE AND POETRY
Read the passage and answer the question
He was under the siege of three union executive members.
There was the Secretary standing over him ; there was the Treasurer puffing away at a cigarette; there was the Organiser lounging near the door, a deadpan look plastered on each of their faces like a death-mask.
Incredulous, he sat in a pensive mood. How cloud the others do such a thing? His discontent turned to silent anger that simmered.
''I think it is not right, '' he said, just managing not to explode from his growing anger.
''You sign that sheet, Mr President,'' ordered the Secretary in a barely audible but stern voice.
''Why are you doing this?'' he asked, his voice not giving any hint of the boiling cauldron of screaming anger in his chest.
''Will you sign, Mr President?''
''All right,'' he said, now seething amiably.
He took his pen, picked up the sheet of paper and looked over the signatures. Then he proceeded to tear up the paper into shreds.
The prevailing atmosphere is
Read the passage and answer the question
He was under the siege of three union executive members.
There was the Secretary standing over him ; there was the Treasurer puffing away at a cigarette; there was the Organiser lounging near the door, a deadpan look plastered on each of their faces like a death-mask.
Incredulous, he sat in a pensive mood. How cloud the others do such a thing? His discontent turned to silent anger that simmered.
''I think it is not right, '' he said, just managing not to explode from his growing anger.
''You sign that sheet, Mr President,'' ordered the Secretary in a barely audible but stern voice.
''Why are you doing this?'' he asked, his voice not giving any hint of the boiling cauldron of screaming anger in his chest.
''Will you sign, Mr President?''
''All right,'' he said, now seething amiably.
He took his pen, picked up the sheet of paper and looked over the signatures. Then he proceeded to tear up the paper into shreds.
The prevailing atmosphere is
Answer
(A)
tense
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UNSEEN PROSE AND POETRY
Read the passage and answer the question
He was under the siege of three union executive members.
There was the Secretary standing over him ; there was the Treasurer puffing away at a cigarette; there was the Organiser lounging near the door, a deadpan look plastered on each of their faces like a death-mask.
Incredulous, he sat in a pensive mood. How cloud the others do such a thing? His discontent turned to silent anger that simmered.
''I think it is not right, '' he said, just managing not to explode from his growing anger.
''You sign that sheet, Mr President,'' ordered the Secretary in a barely audible but stern voice.
''Why are you doing this?'' he asked, his voice not giving any hint of the boiling cauldron of screaming anger in his chest.
''Will you sign, Mr President?''
''All right,'' he said, now seething amiably.
He took his pen, picked up the sheet of paper and looked over the signatures. Then he proceeded to tear up the paper into shreds.
The expression ''plastered on each of their face like a death mask'' illustrates.
Read the passage and answer the question
He was under the siege of three union executive members.
There was the Secretary standing over him ; there was the Treasurer puffing away at a cigarette; there was the Organiser lounging near the door, a deadpan look plastered on each of their faces like a death-mask.
Incredulous, he sat in a pensive mood. How cloud the others do such a thing? His discontent turned to silent anger that simmered.
''I think it is not right, '' he said, just managing not to explode from his growing anger.
''You sign that sheet, Mr President,'' ordered the Secretary in a barely audible but stern voice.
''Why are you doing this?'' he asked, his voice not giving any hint of the boiling cauldron of screaming anger in his chest.
''Will you sign, Mr President?''
''All right,'' he said, now seething amiably.
He took his pen, picked up the sheet of paper and looked over the signatures. Then he proceeded to tear up the paper into shreds.
The expression ''plastered on each of their face like a death mask'' illustrates.
Answer
(D)
metaphor and simile
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UNSEEN PROSE AND POETRY
Read the passage and answer the question
He was under the siege of three union executive members.
There was the Secretary standing over him ; there was the Treasurer puffing away at a cigarette; there was the Organiser lounging near the door, a deadpan look plastered on each of their faces like a death-mask.
Incredulous, he sat in a pensive mood. How cloud the others do such a thing? His discontent turned to silent anger that simmered.
''I think it is not right, '' he said, just managing not to explode from his growing anger.
''You sign that sheet, Mr President,'' ordered the Secretary in a barely audible but stern voice.
''Why are you doing this?'' he asked, his voice not giving any hint of the boiling cauldron of screaming anger in his chest.
''Will you sign, Mr President?''
''All right,'' he said, now seething amiably.
He took his pen, picked up the sheet of paper and looked over the signatures. Then he proceeded to tear up the paper into shreds.
''......... screaming anger'' is an example of
Read the passage and answer the question
He was under the siege of three union executive members.
There was the Secretary standing over him ; there was the Treasurer puffing away at a cigarette; there was the Organiser lounging near the door, a deadpan look plastered on each of their faces like a death-mask.
Incredulous, he sat in a pensive mood. How cloud the others do such a thing? His discontent turned to silent anger that simmered.
''I think it is not right, '' he said, just managing not to explode from his growing anger.
''You sign that sheet, Mr President,'' ordered the Secretary in a barely audible but stern voice.
''Why are you doing this?'' he asked, his voice not giving any hint of the boiling cauldron of screaming anger in his chest.
''Will you sign, Mr President?''
''All right,'' he said, now seething amiably.
He took his pen, picked up the sheet of paper and looked over the signatures. Then he proceeded to tear up the paper into shreds.
''......... screaming anger'' is an example of
Answer
(B)
personjfication
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UNSEEN PROSE AND POETRY
Read the passage and answer the question
He was under the siege of three union executive members.
There was the Secretary standing over him ; there was the Treasurer puffing away at a cigarette; there was the Organiser lounging near the door, a deadpan look plastered on each of their faces like a death-mask.
Incredulous, he sat in a pensive mood. How cloud the others do such a thing? His discontent turned to silent anger that simmered.
''I think it is not right, '' he said, just managing not to explode from his growing anger.
''You sign that sheet, Mr President,'' ordered the Secretary in a barely audible but stern voice.
''Why are you doing this?'' he asked, his voice not giving any hint of the boiling cauldron of screaming anger in his chest.
''Will you sign, Mr President?''
''All right,'' he said, now seething amiably.
He took his pen, picked up the sheet of paper and looked over the signatures. Then he proceeded to tear up the paper into shreds.
The last paragraph illustrates
Read the passage and answer the question
He was under the siege of three union executive members.
There was the Secretary standing over him ; there was the Treasurer puffing away at a cigarette; there was the Organiser lounging near the door, a deadpan look plastered on each of their faces like a death-mask.
Incredulous, he sat in a pensive mood. How cloud the others do such a thing? His discontent turned to silent anger that simmered.
''I think it is not right, '' he said, just managing not to explode from his growing anger.
''You sign that sheet, Mr President,'' ordered the Secretary in a barely audible but stern voice.
''Why are you doing this?'' he asked, his voice not giving any hint of the boiling cauldron of screaming anger in his chest.
''Will you sign, Mr President?''
''All right,'' he said, now seething amiably.
He took his pen, picked up the sheet of paper and looked over the signatures. Then he proceeded to tear up the paper into shreds.
The last paragraph illustrates
Answer
(D)
climax
28
Read the poem and answer the question
We have come to the crossroads
And I must either leave or come with you
I lingered over the choice
But in the darkness of my doubts
You lifted the lamp of love
And I saw in your face
The road that I should take.
The dominant literary device used in the poem is
We have come to the crossroads
And I must either leave or come with you
I lingered over the choice
But in the darkness of my doubts
You lifted the lamp of love
And I saw in your face
The road that I should take.
The dominant literary device used in the poem is
Answer
(C)
metaphor
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Answer all the question in this section
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: Othell0
So opposite to marriage that she shunned
The wealthy, curled darlings of our nation,
Run from her guardage to the sooty bosom
Of such a thing as thou to fear, not to delight?
(Act 1, Scene Two, Lines 66 - 70)
The speaker is
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: Othell0
So opposite to marriage that she shunned
The wealthy, curled darlings of our nation,
Run from her guardage to the sooty bosom
Of such a thing as thou to fear, not to delight?
(Act 1, Scene Two, Lines 66 - 70)
The speaker is
Answer
(C)
Brabantio
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Answer all the question in this section
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: Othell0
So opposite to marriage that she shunned
The wealthy, curled darlings of our nation,
Run from her guardage to the sooty bosom
Of such a thing as thou to fear, not to delight?
(Act 1, Scene Two, Lines 66 - 70)
The speaker is addressing
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: Othell0
So opposite to marriage that she shunned
The wealthy, curled darlings of our nation,
Run from her guardage to the sooty bosom
Of such a thing as thou to fear, not to delight?
(Act 1, Scene Two, Lines 66 - 70)
The speaker is addressing
Answer
(D)
Othello
33
Answer all the question in this section
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: Othell0
So opposite to marriage that she shunned
The wealthy, curled darlings of our nation,
Run from her guardage to the sooty bosom
Of such a thing as thou to fear, not to delight?
(Act 1, Scene Two, Lines 66 - 70)
''Sooty bosom'' is a metaphor for
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: Othell0
So opposite to marriage that she shunned
The wealthy, curled darlings of our nation,
Run from her guardage to the sooty bosom
Of such a thing as thou to fear, not to delight?
(Act 1, Scene Two, Lines 66 - 70)
''Sooty bosom'' is a metaphor for
Answer
(B)
Othello
34
Answer all the question in this section
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: Othell0
So opposite to marriage that she shunned
The wealthy, curled darlings of our nation,
Run from her guardage to the sooty bosom
Of such a thing as thou to fear, not to delight?
(Act 1, Scene Two, Lines 66 - 70)
''Run from her guardege'' refers to
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: Othell0
So opposite to marriage that she shunned
The wealthy, curled darlings of our nation,
Run from her guardage to the sooty bosom
Of such a thing as thou to fear, not to delight?
(Act 1, Scene Two, Lines 66 - 70)
''Run from her guardege'' refers to
Answer
(B)
Desdemona
35
Answer all the question in this section
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: Othell0
So opposite to marriage that she shunned
The wealthy, curled darlings of our nation,
Run from her guardage to the sooty bosom
Of such a thing as thou to fear, not to delight?
(Act 1, Scene Two, Lines 66 - 70)
The setting is
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: Othell0
So opposite to marriage that she shunned
The wealthy, curled darlings of our nation,
Run from her guardage to the sooty bosom
Of such a thing as thou to fear, not to delight?
(Act 1, Scene Two, Lines 66 - 70)
The setting is
Answer
(B)
a council chamber
36
Answer all the question in this section
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: Othello
So opposite to marriage that she shunned
The wealthy, curled darlings of our nation,
Run from her guardage to the sooty bosom
Of such a thing as thou to fear, not to delight?
(Act 1, Scene Two, Lines 66 - 70)
The speaker is
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: Othello
So opposite to marriage that she shunned
The wealthy, curled darlings of our nation,
Run from her guardage to the sooty bosom
Of such a thing as thou to fear, not to delight?
(Act 1, Scene Two, Lines 66 - 70)
The speaker is
Answer
(D)
lago
37
Answer all the question in this section
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: Othell0
So opposite to marriage that she shunned
The wealthy, curled darlings of our nation,
Run from her guardage to the sooty bosom
Of such a thing as thou to fear, not to delight?
(Act 1, Scene Two, Lines 66 - 70)
The addressee is
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: Othell0
So opposite to marriage that she shunned
The wealthy, curled darlings of our nation,
Run from her guardage to the sooty bosom
Of such a thing as thou to fear, not to delight?
(Act 1, Scene Two, Lines 66 - 70)
The addressee is
Answer
(C)
Roderigo
38
Answer all the question in this section
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: Othell0
So opposite to marriage that she shunned
The wealthy, curled darlings of our nation,
Run from her guardage to the sooty bosom
Of such a thing as thou to fear, not to delight?
(Act 1, Scene Two, Lines 66 - 70)
What has happened to the speaker?
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: Othell0
So opposite to marriage that she shunned
The wealthy, curled darlings of our nation,
Run from her guardage to the sooty bosom
Of such a thing as thou to fear, not to delight?
(Act 1, Scene Two, Lines 66 - 70)
What has happened to the speaker?
Answer
(C)
He has been denied promotion
39
Answer all the question in this section
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: Othello
So opposite to marriage that she shunned
The wealthy, curled darlings of our nation,
Run from her guardage to the sooty bosom
Of such a thing as thou to fear, not to delight?
(Act 1, Scene Two, Lines 66 - 70)
The underlined expression shows that the speaker is
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: Othello
So opposite to marriage that she shunned
The wealthy, curled darlings of our nation,
Run from her guardage to the sooty bosom
Of such a thing as thou to fear, not to delight?
(Act 1, Scene Two, Lines 66 - 70)
The underlined expression shows that the speaker is
Answer
(B)
insincere
40
Answer all the question in this section
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: Othell0
So opposite to marriage that she shunned
The wealthy, curled darlings of our nation,
Run from her guardage to the sooty bosom
Of such a thing as thou to fear, not to delight?
(Act 1, Scene Two, Lines 66 - 70)
The setting is
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: Othell0
So opposite to marriage that she shunned
The wealthy, curled darlings of our nation,
Run from her guardage to the sooty bosom
Of such a thing as thou to fear, not to delight?
(Act 1, Scene Two, Lines 66 - 70)
The setting is
Answer
(B)
a street in Cyprus
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Read the extract and answer the question
Work on,
My medicine work! Thus credulous fools are caught,
And many worthy and chaste dames even thus,
All guiltless, meet reproach. What ho! My lord!
My lord, I say!
(Act IV, Scene One, Lines 45 - 49)
Just before this speech,
Work on,
My medicine work! Thus credulous fools are caught,
And many worthy and chaste dames even thus,
All guiltless, meet reproach. What ho! My lord!
My lord, I say!
(Act IV, Scene One, Lines 45 - 49)
Just before this speech,
Answer
(A)
Othello falls into a trance
44
Read the extract and answer the question
Work on,
My medicine work! Thus credulous fools are caught,
And many worthy and chaste dames even thus,
All guiltless, meet reproach. What ho! My lord!
My lord, I say!
(Act IV, Scene One, Lines 45 - 49)
''medicine'' in the extract refers to the speaker's
Work on,
My medicine work! Thus credulous fools are caught,
And many worthy and chaste dames even thus,
All guiltless, meet reproach. What ho! My lord!
My lord, I say!
(Act IV, Scene One, Lines 45 - 49)
''medicine'' in the extract refers to the speaker's
Answer
(C)
lies
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Read the extract and answer the question
Work on,
My medicine work! Thus credulous fools are caught,
And many worthy and chaste dames even thus,
All guiltless, meet reproach. What ho! My lord!
My lord, I say!
(Act IV, Scene One, Lines 45 - 49)
The character that enters immediately after is
Work on,
My medicine work! Thus credulous fools are caught,
And many worthy and chaste dames even thus,
All guiltless, meet reproach. What ho! My lord!
My lord, I say!
(Act IV, Scene One, Lines 45 - 49)
The character that enters immediately after is
Answer
(A)
lago
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