WAEC - Literature In English (2023)

1
The moon looked on the massacre in horror ! illustrates
Answer
(A)
pathetic fallacy
2
A dead metaphor is
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(A)
overused and ineffective
3
The third stanza of the Shakespearean sonnet is
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(D)
quatrain
4
child of scorn illustrates
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(B)
contrast
5
The metrical structure is predominantly
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(C)
iambic
6
Reading the poem, one notices that the poet is being
 
Answer
(C)
ironic
7
In the last stanza, the persona is
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(A)
fantasizing
8
The two stanzas are built on
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(A)
alternate rhyme
9
The prevailing atmosphere is
 
Answer
(C)
tense
10
join in with it, lead it on, but, finally,veer it from illustrates
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(C)
parallelism
11
The attitude of the writer towards Sasu is one of
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(C)
approval
12
rattling like leaves in a storm, fear branded on their faces illustrates
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(A)
personification and simile
13
The last paragraph illustrates
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(A)
anti-climax
14
Letters, journals and diaries are examples of
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(D)
non-fiction
15
A dramatic performance with scenes played by body movements or gestures without words known as
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(B)
pantomime
16
The speaker is
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(B)
Lysander
17
The character that speaks before the speaker
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(B)
Theseus
18
it is not enough to speak, but to speak true illustrates
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(D)
epigram
19
The character that speaks after the speaker is
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(A)
Lysander
20
The character that delivers the prologue is
Answer
(D)
Quince
21
Exaggerating one's personal features for comic effect is
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(A)
caricature
22
That girl is too young to be put in the family way illustrates
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(A)
euphemism
23
At the last head count, the population of the school was three thousand is an example of
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(A)
synechdoche
24
The speaker is
Answer
(A)
Lysander
25
The speaker is addressing
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(D)
himself
26
The speaker is in
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(A)
the woods
27
Come, thou gentle day illustrates
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(A)
apostrophe
28
After the speech, the speaker
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(C)
falls asleep
29
The extract presents the image of a
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(D)
calm weather
30
The dominant literary device used in the extract is
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(C)
personification
31
The speaker is
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(D)
Helena
32
The speech shows that the speaker is
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(B)
dissappointed
33
The speaker's mood stems from
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(A)
being rejected by the lover
34
The speaker has just said farewell to
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(C)
Hermia
35
The speaker resolves to tell
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(B)
Demetrius of Hermia's flight
36
Jonsey's opening speech illustrates
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(B)
soliloquy
37
In the Town hall is the
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(A)
setting
38
Bassy is a ____ in the play.
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(D)
character
39
Jonsey's speech Your mayoral hopeful is addressed to
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(B)
Bassey
40
A fable is also known as
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(A)
an apologue
41
A character that is built around a single idea or quality is a _______ character.
Answer
(B)
flat
42
Resolution in a literary work is also referred to as
Answer
(B)
final outcome
43
The third stanza of the Shakespearean sonnet is
Answer
(A)
quatrain
44
A short poem lamenting the death of someone is
Answer
(B)
a threnody
45
Seven metrical feet in a line of a stanza is
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(B)
heptametre