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

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
A fictional prose which is neither a hovel nor a short story is a/an ......
1. allegory
2. fable
3. novella
4. novelette
' Condensed use of language is a dominant feature of ...... .
1. comedy
2. poetry
3. prose
4. tragedy
The sudden reversal of a character’s fortune in a literary work is ........
1. denouement
2. hamartia
3. hubris
4. Peripeteia

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

The underlined words illustrate ......
1. hyperbole
2. irony
3. metonymy
4. paradox
hands and feet in line illustrate.......
1. contrast
2. litotes
3. personification
4. synecdoche
His pen was like the breath of life exemplifies.......
1. bathos
2. pathos
3. satire
4. simile
Comic relief occurs in.......
1. comedies
2. pastorals
3. romance
4. tragedies
One week of fasting makes one weak is an example of......
1. apostrophe
2. paradox
3. pun
4. sarcasm
Students rarely read Julius Caesar these days illustrates.........
1. caesura.
2. eponym
3. oxymoron
4. zeugma.
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
Ascribing human moods to nature, as in a playful breeze illustrates .......
1. humor
2. pathetic fallacy.
3. symbolism
4. transferred epithet
The end of a performance is followed by.......
1. a curtain call
2. a curtain raiser
3. epilogue
4. interlude

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song

The underlined words illustrate ......
1. assonance
2. consonance
3. onomatopoeia
4. repetition
A short poem with a witty or sarcastic ending is a/an .
1. ballad
2. allegory
3. epigram
4. panegyric
. The big boulder blasted the house illustrates A. alliteration.
1. Option a
2. Option b
3. C. irony.
4. paradox
The dominant literary device used in the lines is . . .
1. euphemism
2. hyperbole
3. paradox
4. understatement
The feeling of the narrator in the extract is one of .......
1. confusion
2. fatigue
3. love
4. joy
Which of the following is written by an African playwright?
1. She Stoops to Conquer
2. . A Raisin in the Sun
3. . Lonely Days
4. The Blood of a stranger Drums
Which of the following is written by a Non-African poet?
1. Option a
2. The Dining Table
3. The Schoolboy
4. The Panic of Growing Older

Part 2: Unseen Prose and Poetry

Read the passage below and answer questions 21 to 25

On, on, on, over the countless miles of angry space roll the long heaving billows. Mountains and caves are here, for what is now the one is now the other; then all is but a boiling heap of rushing water. Pursuit, and flight and mad return of wave on wave, and savage struggle, ending up in a spouting up of foam that whitens the black night; incessant change of place and form and hue; constancy In nothing but eternal strife.

On, on, on, they roll and darker grows the night; and louder howls the ‘wind and more clamorous and fierce become the million voices in the sea, when the wild cry goes forth upon the storm, ‘A ship!’

The most suitable title for the passage is......
1. A Savage struggle at Night
2. At Sea on a Stormy Night
3. The Long Heaving Waves
4. The Million Voice in the Sea
The predominant use of long vowels in the first sentence heightens the .... of the waves.
1. anger
2. expanse
3. great noise
4. endless movement
The writer’s attitude to the scene is one of .......
1. anxiety
2. awe
3. contempt
4. indifference
The expression million voices is used as .... .
1. conceit
2. euphemism
3. hyperbole
4. metonymy
A ship in the last line symbolizes.......
1. despair
2. hope
3. pirates
4. sailors

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The theme is about the poet’s . ....
1. broken love affairs
2. fear ‘of the stilly night
3. sleepless night
4. yearning for happier times gone by
. The theme of the poem is presented contrast.....
1. assonance
2. contrast
3. paradox
4. repetition
The poet’s unhappiness are ......
1. light and night
2. . light and shone
3. night and dimm’d
4. shone and dimm’d
The poet refers to memory as being 'fond' and 'sad' ......
1. cheers and smiles
2. love and joy
3. sorrow and pity
4. smiles and tears
The meaning of the expression, Ere slumber's chain has bound me is ......
1. after I wake up
2. before I sleep
3. before I dream
4. Since I cannot sleep

Section B

Answer all questions in this section

William Shakespear:_Othello

Read the extract and answer Questions 31 to 35

Zounds sir, y are robbed! For shame, put on your gown

Your heart is burst, you have lost half your soul

Even now, now, very now, an old black ram

Is tupping your white ewe. Arise, arise!

Awake the snorting citizens with the bell,

Or else the devil will make a grandsire of you.

Arise I say!

(Act I, Scene One, Lines 83 - 89)

The speaker is .......
1. Cassio
2. Iago
3. Lodovico
4. Roderigo
The listener's initial reaction to the speech is one of .......
1. anger
2. defiance
3. disbelief
4. regret
The underlined expression implies an attitude of .......
1. callousness
2. hypocrisy
3. racism
4. tribalism
...y' are robbed! Refers to
1. Brabantio's rejection of Othello
2. Desdemona's stout defense of Othello
3. Iago's stealing of Roderigo's purse
4. Othello's elopement with Desdemona
The speaker is.......
1. at the citadel of Cyprus
2. in front Brabantio's house
3. in the council chamber
4. outside the sagittary

text

The speaker is.......
1. Casio
2. Iago
3. Duke
4. Roderigo
The speaker is addressing.......
1. Cassio
2. Iago
3. Othello
4. Roderigo
The mood is that of.......
1. deceit.
2. envy
3. hatred
4. regret
....so good a commander refers to
1. Brabantio.
2. Duke
3. Othello
4. Roderigo
The underlined expression exemplifies .....
1. antithesis
2. apostrophe
3. chiasmus
4. euphemism

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... he... referred to by Speaker X, is .......
1. Brabantio
2. Gratiano
3. Montano
4. Lodovico
...do a desperate turn means .....
1. commit suicide
2. confront Duke
3. disown Desdemona
4. kill Othello
Speaker Y’s speech shows that .......
1. Cassio is to blame
2. Emilia is to blame
3. he is unrepentant
4. she is regretful.
Speaker Y has just ........
1. discovered lago’s plan
2. killed Desdemona
3. ordered the lago
4. promoted Cassio
Just after this dialogue ........
1. Cassio is killed
2. Emilia realizes her culpability
3. lago gloats over his success
4. Roderigo fights Cassio

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The speaker is .......
1. Bianca
2. Cassio
3. Desdemona
4. Emilia
The speaker has just been threatened by’......
1. Cassio
2. Iago
3. Lodovico
4. Othello
What has-just happened is that ......
1. Emilia has confirmed her mistress’s guilt
2. Iago has openly confessed his crime
3. Othello has murdered his wife
4. Roderigo has realized Iago is a fraud.
Soon after this, the speaker.....
1. attempts to run away
2. is arrested by Lodovico.
3. is killed by Iago
4. shows remorse
This stage of the play is known as the...........
1. climax
2. conflict.
3. denouement
4. exposition.

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

: Faceless

Comment on Fofo's visit to Maa Tsuru
To what extent are men portrayed as oppressors of women in the novel?

Lonely Days

How does Alani reject his ancestry in the novel?
Examine the advice of the three widows to Yaremi in the novel

Section B - NonCitadeln Prose

Answer one question only from this section

Native Son

Comment on Bigger's last moments with Max
Examine Bigger's visit to Bessie in the Novel

The Castle of Otranto

Assess the relationship between fathers and their children in the novel
Comment on the presence of ghosts and spirit in the novel

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

The Blood of a stranger

Compare Kindo and his father in the play
Examine Wara's encounter with soko in the play

Harvest of corruption

Examine Ogeyi as a deeply religious person in the play
Account for the downfall of chief in the play

Section B - Non-African Drama

Answer one question only from this section

A Raising in the sun

Consider the role of Mrs. Johnson in development of the plot
Account for Walter's expectations in the play

She Stoops to Conquer

Asses Marlow and Hasting's first encounter with Mr. Hardcastle
Comment on Tony's attitude toward Mr. and Mrs. Hardcastle

Section A - African Poetry

Answer one question only from this section

How does the diction convey the theme of Adeoti's Ambush?
Discuss the theme of accommodation in the Anvil and the Hammer

Section B - Non-African Poetry

Answer one question only from this section

Examine God's reasoning in The Pulley
How does the image of caged bird explain the boy's experiences in The Schoolboy?