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

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
A pause with a line of poetry is ....
1. an alliteration
2. a caesura
3. a metre
4. an assonance
A recurring idea, image, or a group of images that unifies a work of literature is ......
1. motif
2. allusion
3. legend
4. anecdote
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
An inscription on a tombstone is an ......
1. Epitaph
2. Epistle
3. Epigram
4. Ode
A three-line stanza, rhymed ABA, BCD, CDC is a ........
1. couplet
2. haiku
3. terza rima
4. heroic couplet
The chorus normally features prominently in ......
1. poetry
2. the epic
3. the novel
4. drama
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
The dominant literary device is
1. the epithet
2. the rhetorical question
3. verbal irony
4. paradox
Does it stink like rotten meat? makes use of the sense of ........
1. taste
2. touch
3. sight
4. smell
The mood of the poem is one of ....
1. joy
2. doubt
3. anger
4. certainty
A short play performed in the pause in between the act of a longer play is ....
1. denouement
2. interlude
3. prologue
4. epilogue
The most intense part of a conflict is the
1. resolution
2. climax
3. denouement
4. dues ex machina
I feel a million times better than I felt yesterday is ........
1. an apostrophe
2. a euphemism
3. an irony
4. a hyperbole
Identify the odd item:
1. third person narrative
2. literary appreciation
3. first person narrative
4. epistolary technique
A dramatist is someone who ..... plays
1. writes
2. directs
3. commissions
4. promotes
Nando's family lives within the lower income bracket illustrates ......
1. sarcasm
2. allusion
3. climax
4. euphemism
A dramatic performance without word is
1. mime
2. an aside
3. monologue
4. a soliloquy
Utopia is a term used to describe .......
1. Strange circumstances
2. difficult conditions
3. pleasant feelings
4. ideal societies
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

When he was little, he would ask his mother sometimes, as he lay in the cold little room and looked up at her as she sat beside his bed stroking his hair, why two boys from his class had thrown stones at a dog; or why on another occasion a gang of them had broken into an empty house, smashing the thick door which had curved mouldings on the front which had been turned by carpenters years before; or why he had ended up in a fight which had begun when a little girl had shouted names at him which made no sense about his house and his mother and others had joined in and he had rushed at them, scattering them as some shrieked and some laughed and he flailed about with his hard little fists and tears in his eyes. His mother would smile, say ‘shhh’ and he would drift to sleep with the heart shape of her face imprinted on his mind.

The dominant feeling in the passage is that of A. B. C. D.
1. nostalgia
2. anger
3. expectancy
4. fear
The. feeling is conveyed by the ..
1. mouldings on the door
2. boys' actions
3. tender care of his mother
4. little girl’s taunts
The dominant literary device in the passage ..
1. personification
2. antithesis
3. litotes
4. parallelism
.....and he rushed at them, scattering them as some shrieked and some laughed illustrates
1. onomatopoeia
2. climax
3. metaphor
4. humorous
The main character is ....
1. playful
2. inquisitive
3. sad
4. metonymy
Question 26
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Question 27
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Question 29
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Question 30
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Section B

Answer all questions in this section

Question 31
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Question 32
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Question 50
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