2020 Literature-In-English WAEC SSCE (School Candidates) May/June

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Literature-In-English 1 - Objective

Section A

Answer all questions in this section

Part 1: General Knowledge of Literature
  1. A situation where an audience is aware of an action a character is ignorant of is .......
    1. dramatic irony
    2. comic relief
    3. aside
    4. satire
  2. A fictional prose which is neither a hovel nor a short story is a/an ......
    1. allegory
    2. fable
    3. novella
    4. novelette
  3. ' Condensed use of language is a dominant feature of ...... .
    1. comedy
    2. poetry
    3. prose
    4. tragedy
  4. The sudden reversal of a character’s fortune in a literary work is ........
    1. denouement
    2. hamartia
    3. hubris
    4. Peripeteia

    5. Read the extract below and answer Questions 5 to 7
    With the pen, he wrote kings into reality
    With his words, kingdoms arose,
    Those same words slaves inhaled
    Their hands building walls, their feet tromping territories
    His pen was like the breath of life

  5. The underlined words illustrate ......
    1. hyperbole
    2. irony
    3. metonymy
    4. paradox
  6. hands and feet in line illustrate.......
    1. contrast
    2. litotes
    3. personification
    4. synecdoche
  7. His pen was like the breath of life exemplifies.......
    1. bathos
    2. pathos
    3. satire
    4. simile
  8. Comic relief occurs in.......
    1. comedies
    2. pastorals
    3. romance
    4. tragedies
  9. One week of fasting makes one weak is an example of......
    1. apostrophe
    2. paradox
    3. pun
    4. sarcasm
  10. Students rarely read Julius Caesar these days illustrates.........
    1. caesura.
    2. eponym
    3. oxymoron
    4. zeugma.
  11. In literature, the term poetic justice applies to.....
    1. a story that ends well.
    2. characters that are spared death
    3. the development of a good plot
    4. the rewarding of good characters and the punishing of bad ones
  12. Ascribing human moods to nature, as in a playful breeze illustrates .......
    1. humor
    2. pathetic fallacy.
    3. symbolism
    4. transferred epithet
  13. The end of a performance is followed by.......
    1. a curtain call
    2. a curtain raiser
    3. epilogue
    4. interlude
    14. Read the lines and answer 14
    Marching along fifty score strong
    Great hearted gentlemen singing this song
  14. The underlined words illustrate ......
    1. assonance
    2. consonance
    3. onomatopoeia
    4. repetition
  15. Question 15
    1. Option a
    2. Option b
    3. Option c
    4. Option d
  16. Question 16
    1. Option a
    2. Option b
    3. Option c
    4. Option d
  17. Question 17
    1. Option a
    2. Option b
    3. Option c
    4. Option d
  18. Question 18
    1. Option a
    2. Option b
    3. Option c
    4. Option d
  19. Question 19
    1. Option a
    2. Option b
    3. Option c
    4. Option d
  20. Question 20
    1. Option a
    2. Option b
    3. Option c
    4. Option d
Part 2: Unseen Prose and Poetry

Read the passage below and answer questions 21 to 25

**passage (please replace this text with the provided passage in the source editor with each paragraph of the passage inside a separate <p></p> tag).

  1. Question 21
    1. Option a
    2. Option b
    3. Option c
    4. Option d
  2. Question 22
    1. Option a
    2. Option b
    3. Option c
    4. Option d
  3. Question 23
    1. Option a
    2. Option b
    3. Option c
    4. Option d
  4. Question 24
    1. Option a
    2. Option b
    3. Option c
    4. Option d
  5. Question 25
    1. Option a
    2. Option b
    3. Option c
    4. Option d
  6. Question 26
    1. Option a
    2. Option b
    3. Option c
    4. Option d
  7. Question 27
    1. Option a
    2. Option b
    3. Option c
    4. Option d
  8. Question 28
    1. Option a
    2. Option b
    3. Option c
    4. Option d
  9. Question 29
    1. Option a
    2. Option b
    3. Option c
    4. Option d
  10. Question 30
    1. Option a
    2. Option b
    3. Option c
    4. Option d

Section B

Answer all questions in this section

  1. Question 31
    1. Option a
    2. Option b
    3. Option c
    4. Option d
  2. Question 32
    1. Option a
    2. Option b
    3. Option c
    4. Option d
  3. Question 33
    1. Option a
    2. Option b
    3. Option c
    4. Option d
  4. Question 34
    1. Option a
    2. Option b
    3. Option c
    4. Option d
  5. Question 35
    1. Option a
    2. Option b
    3. Option c
    4. Option d
  6. Question 36
    1. Option a
    2. Option b
    3. Option c
    4. Option d
  7. Question 37
    1. Option a
    2. Option b
    3. Option c
    4. Option d
  8. Question 38
    1. Option a
    2. Option b
    3. Option c
    4. Option d
  9. Question 39
    1. Option a
    2. Option b
    3. Option c
    4. Option d
  10. Question 40
    1. Option a
    2. Option b
    3. Option c
    4. Option d
  11. Question 41
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    2. Option b
    3. Option c
    4. Option d
  12. Question 42
    1. Option a
    2. Option b
    3. Option c
    4. Option d
  13. Question 43
    1. Option a
    2. Option b
    3. Option c
    4. Option d
  14. Question 44
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    2. Option b
    3. Option c
    4. Option d
  15. Question 45
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    2. Option b
    3. Option c
    4. Option d
  16. Question 46
    1. Option a
    2. Option b
    3. Option c
    4. Option d
  17. Question 47
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    2. Option b
    3. Option c
    4. Option d
  18. Question 48
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    2. Option b
    3. Option c
    4. Option d
  19. Question 49
    1. Option a
    2. Option b
    3. Option c
    4. Option d
  20. Question 50
    1. Option a
    2. Option b
    3. Option c
    4. Option d

Literature-In-English 2 - Prose

Answer two questions in all; one from each section.

Develop not fewer than five points in your answers.

Section A - African Prose

Answer one question only from this section

  1. Question 1
  2. Question 2
  3. Question 3
  4. Question 4

Section B - Non-African Prose

Answer one question only from this section

  1. Question 5
  2. Question 6
  3. Question 7
  4. Question 8

Literature-In-English 3 - Drama and Poetry

Develop not fewer than five points in your answers.

Section A - African Drama

Answer one question only from this section

  1. Question 1
  2. Question 2
  3. Question 3
  4. Question 4

Section B - Non-African Drama

Answer one question only from this section

  1. Question 5
  2. Question 6
  3. Question 7
  4. Question 8

Section A - African Poetry

Answer one question only from this section

  1. Question 9
  2. Question 10

Section B - Non-African Poetry

Answer one question only from this section

  1. Question 11
  2. Question 12
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