2021 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. Something a character says on stage that is meant for audience alone is......
    1. an epilogue
    2. a mime
    3. a soliloquy
    4. an aside
  2. A pause with a line of poetry is ....
    1. an alliteration
    2. a caesura
    3. a metre
    4. an assonance
  3. A recurring idea, image, or a group of images that unifies a work of literature is ......
    1. motif
    2. allusion
    3. legend
    4. anecdote
  4. When you are old and grey and full of sleep. The rhythmic pattern of the above line is......
    1. anapestic
    2. dactylic
    3. trochaic
    4. iambic
  5. An inscription on a tombstone is an ......
    1. Epitaph
    2. Epistle
    3. Epigram
    4. Ode
  6. A three-line stanza, rhymed ABA, BCD, CDC is a ........
    1. couplet
    2. haiku
    3. terza rima
    4. heroic couplet
  7. The chorus normally features prominently in ......
    1. poetry
    2. the epic
    3. the novel
    4. drama
  8. A story which explains a natural phenomenon or justifies the beliefs of a society is A. B. C. D.
    1. myth
    2. legend
    3. motif
    4. fable
  9. The dominant literary device is
    1. the epithet
    2. the rhetorical question
    3. verbal irony
    4. paradox
  10. Does it stink like rotten meat? makes use of the sense of ........
    1. taste
    2. touch
    3. sight
    4. smell
  11. The mood of the poem is one of ....
    1. joy
    2. doubt
    3. anger
    4. certainty
  12. A short play performed in the pause in between the act of a longer play is ....
    1. denouement
    2. interlude
    3. prologue
    4. epilogue
  13. The most intense part of a conflict is the
    1. resolution
    2. climax
    3. denouement
    4. dues ex machina
  14. I feel a million times better than I felt yesterday is ........
    1. an apostrophe
    2. a euphemism
    3. an irony
    4. a hyperbole
  15. Identify the odd item:
    1. third person narrative
    2. literary appreciation
    3. first person narrative
    4. epistolary technique
  16. A dramatist is someone who ..... plays
    1. writes
    2. directs
    3. commissions
    4. promotes
  17. Nando's family lives within the lower income bracket illustrates ......
    1. sarcasm
    2. allusion
    3. climax
    4. euphemism
  18. A dramatic performance without word is
    1. mime
    2. an aside
    3. monologue
    4. a soliloquy
  19. Utopia is a term used to describe .......
    1. Strange circumstances
    2. difficult conditions
    3. pleasant feelings
    4. ideal societies
  20. The lawyer addressed the bench illustrates ....
    1. simile
    2. oxymoron
    3. alliteration
    4. metonymy
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
    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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