2018 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. The main character in a play or novel is the
    1. protagonist
    2. narrator
    3. vilain
    4. antagonist
  2. A dramatic performance with only bodily movements and no speech is a
    1. farce
    2. mime
    3. slapstick
    4. burlesque
  3. Before a play is performed it is
    1. auditioned
    2. applauded
    3. rehearsed
    4. recited
  4. A play that moves the audience to pity and fear is a
    1. comedy
    2. farce
    3. pantomine
    4. tragedy
  5. A sonnet has a final couplet when it has
    1. sestet
    2. an octave
    3. two sestets
    4. three quatrains
  6. He is my most beloved enemy illustrates
    1. synecdoche
    2. oxymoron
    3. metonymy
    4. litotes
  7. The cast appears at the end of a play for the
    1. musical interlude
    2. curtain
    3. call
    4. introduction
  8. Question 8
    1. Option a
    2. Option b
    3. Option c
    4. Option d
  9. A poem which
    1. Option a
    2. Option b
    3. Option c
    4. Option d
    1. Option a
    2. Option b
    3. Option c
    4. Option d
  11. Hamartia in a literary work refers to a hero's
    1. tragic flaw
    2. inordinate ambition
    3. strength of character
    4. good works
    1. Option a
    2. Option b
    3. Option c
    4. Option d
  13. A short play performed during the pause between the acts of a longer play is
    1. an interlude
    2. an epilogue
    3. a prologue
    4. an interval
  14. 'Weeping pillow' illustrates
    1. dramatic monologue
    2. pathetic fallacy
    3. transferred epithet
    4. dramatic irony
  15. The predominant figure of speech in the extract is
    1. oxymoron
    2. personification
    3. contrast
    4. paradox
  16. The extract is about
    1. an earthquake
    2. a flood
    3. an explosion
    4. a storm
  17. The effect of the extract is conveyed through the use of
    1. antithesis
    2. parallelism
    3. conceit
    4. climax
  18. Beware her faintly frail health and gentile gallands around her speed illustrates
    1. oxymoron
    2. alliteration
    3. synecdoche
    4. repetition
  19. The eight-line part of a Petrarchan sonnet is the
    1. quatrain
    2. octave
    3. octameter
    4. quarlet
  20. The metrical beat in The splendour falls on castle walls is
    1. Anapaestic
    2. dactylic
    3. trochaic
    4. iambic
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. The narrative technique is
    1. first person
    2. steam of consciousness
    3. third person
    4. interior monologue
  3. How would he explain it to himself?
    1. hyperbole
    2. parallelism
    3. rhetorical question
    4. thethorical question
  4. The writer's attitude towards Ja,es is one of
    1. sympathy
    2. distrust
    3. support
    4. disapproval
  5. The setting is
    1. The couple's home
    2. a modern hotel
    3. the airport
    4. a school
  6. The mood of the persona is one of
    1. contempt
    2. hilarity
    3. despondency
    4. hopefulness
  7. The theme of the poem is
    1. love in the garden
    2. the acceptance of love
    3. the rising moon
    4. unrequited love
  8. The envy of the person's friends is expressed in the
    1. avid touch
    2. clipped wings
    3. green and frosty eyes
    4. song-filled air pocket
  9. Line 2 is in the iambic
    1. trimeter
    2. tetrameter
    3. pentameter
    4. hexameter
  10. The last line illustrates
    1. parallelism
    2. contrast
    3. hyperbole
    4. metaphor

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
    1. Option a
    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
    1. Option a
    2. Option b
    3. Option c
    4. Option d
  15. Question 45
    1. Option a
    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
    1. Option a
    2. Option b
    3. Option c
    4. Option d
  18. Question 48
    1. Option a
    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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