2019 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 literary work which is intended to teach a moral lesson is ....
1. romantic
2. didactic
3. mimetic
4. moralistic
A short account of an interesting event is
1. a tale
2. an anecdote
3. an episode
4. a story
He he a citizen of no mean city ilustrates
1. bathos
2. euphemism
3. metonymy
4. litotes
The introductory part of a play, a novel or a poem is ...
1. epilogue
2. plot
3. setting
4. prologue
An elegy is a poem of .....
1. mourning
2. complaint
3. hope
4. joy
The trees bowed their heads in shame illustrates ....
1. personification
2. alliteration
3. assonance
4. paradox
A character whose actions are predictable in a literary work is
1. a round character
2. a flat character
3. the hero
4. the villain
A scene in fiction enacting past events is. ......
1. allusion
2. foreshadow
3. flashback
4. interlude
Poetic licence is a term applied to a poet’s ....
1. choice of words
2. choice of characters
3. restrictions in the use of language
4. freedom in the use of language
Milton! Thou should’st be living at this hour The literary device used in the line above ...
1. aside
2. apostrophe
3. soliloquy
4. suspense
Here lie I, Martin Eliginbrodde Have mercy on my soul, Lord God. The extract above illustrates .....
1. epitaph
2. elegy
3. ballad
4. dirge
We live to die. we die to live is an example of ....
1. paradox
2. hyperbole
3. inversion
4. oxymoron

The poem is about a/an ...
1. flower
2. Old woman
3. little child
4. traveler
The persona’s mood is one of ....
1. anger
2. admiration
3. indifference
4. joy
The rhyme pattern is ......
1. abc abc
2. cc bb cc
3. ab ab cc
4. aa bc bc
A play in which characters act through gestures and facial expressions is a ......
1. pantomime
2. burlesque
3. farce
4. melodrama
Characterization refers to......
1. how characters are grouped
2. the reader’s opinion of the characters
3. how characters are depicted
4. the roles played by the characters
In a literary work, the foil is one who......
1. complements another character
2. contrasts with another character
3. introduces the conflict
4. resolves the conflict
Dramatis personae refers to .....
1. audience
2. characters
3. chorus
4. cast
A literary device used to enhance sound effect in poetry is ......
1. imagery
2. alliteration
3. refrain
4. symbol

Part 2: Unseen Prose and Poetry

Read the passage below and answer questions 21 to 25

Mark lies sleepless, his supine eyes rolling as he counts the rafters ~ vertically, horizontally, diagonally over and over. There is continual rumbling in his belly Lying so still, whom can he blame now Isn’t it his own fault to be like this?

Three months ago, Atonge and Agbenya said they were leaving town because “things have become too hard,” as they put it. They asked Mark to come along. He declined saying that he would have to prepare. Of course, he simply could not go — da not. He had a pact with Akwele who sells ken- key downtown: neither could leave town without the other. At the time Mark’s friends were ready, Akwele had travelled to Accra and would, un-know to anyone, not return in a hurry.

This is why Mark is lying dejected on his bed, a hungry man. Anyhow, he is not an angry man.

. supine eyes...ilustrates
1. oxymoron
2. paradox
3. verbal irony
4. synecdoche
Rumbling as used in the 1st paragraph is .......
1. Onomatopoeic
2. Metaphoric
3. ironic
4. alliterative
The dominant theme is .....
1. unrequited love
2. loss of opportunity
3. lack of trust
4. insatiable hunger
The narrative technique is .......
1. . third person
2. first person
3. . interior — monologue
4. multiple narration
The writer's attitude is one of .......
1. anger
2. indifference
3. sympathy
4. mockery

The stanzas are written in .......
1. quintets
2. quatrains
3. sestets
4. tercets
The recurrent device used is .......
1. synecdoche
2. paradox
3. metonymy
4. paradox
The mood of the poet is .......
1. derisive
2. ecstatic
3. ecstatic
4. melancholic
The opening lines of the stanza are .......
1. trochaic
2. iambic
3. anapestic
4. dactylic
The first stanza rhymes .......
1. ab ac
2. ab ab.
3. abcb
4. abba

Section B

Answer all questions in this section

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: Othello

When remedies are past, griefs a ended

By seeing the worst; which late of hopes depended

To mourn a mischief that is past and gone

Is the next way to draw new mischief on.

What caanot be preserved when fortune takes

The robbed that smiles. steals Sone thing from the thief; He robs himself that spends grief. (Act 1, Scene Three, Lines 200-207)

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The speaker is .......
1. Gratiano
2. Duke
3. Lodovico
4. Montano
The speech is directly addressed to .......
1. Cassio
2. Brabantio
3. Othello
4. 2nd Senator
The specch is about A. B,
1. Brabantio’s complain about Othello Othello’s Joss of his handkerchief
2. . Brabantio’s loss of his daughter
3. the fight between Cassio and Roderigo
By the speech, the speaker attempts to A B. C. D. -
1. . instigate the addressee
2. console the addressee
3. prevent war
4. settle a fight
The underlined expression means A. B. C. D.
1. one is bound to lose something in life
2. keep smiling even when being robbed
3. it is useful not to bemoan one’s loss
4. the thief loses either way

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The speaker arid the addressee are A B. C. . -
1. Lodovico and Roderigo
2. Clown and Lodovico
3. Iago and Roderigo
4. Iago and Clown
What binds the speaker and the at addressee together is their? A. B. D.
1. Hatred for Othello
2. Fear of Cassio
3. Fear of Duke
4. Hatred for Brabantio
The addressee is enjoined to Go, make money for ; A. B. C. D.
1. wooing Desdemona
2. enriching Iago
3. Placating Brabantio
4. rewarding Bianca
The underlined expression means _ A. B. C. D,
1. you have your way by making him angry
2. you gain by making hiswilll cheat on him
3. you will not be delighted at the result
4. you will have succeeded in seducing her
The speaker’s attitude towards the addressee is one of
1. spite
2. envy
3. friendliness
4. intolerance

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The speaker is
1. Othello
2. Gratiano
3. Iago
4. Cassio
The setting is
1. a street in front of the citadel
2. a street
3. the citadel
4. Desdemona's chamber
The speaker is addressing
1. Duke and others
2. Emilia
3. the senate
4. Lodovico and other
The speaker is addressing ..... A. B. C. D.ead the extract and answer Q
1. preserve the speaker’s reputation
2. express the speaker’s remorse
3. express the speaker’s acceptance of guilt
4. denounce the speaker's enemies
Among these unlucky deeds the immediate one is A. B. C.D. R
1. the killing of Desdemona
2. declaring Desdemona as unfaithful
3. refusing to listen to Emilia
4. the sacking of Cassio

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The speaker is
1. Brabantio
2. Othello
3. Duke
4. Montano
The occasion is
1. Othello's return from war
2. Othello's departure for Cyprus
3. Montano expressing his delight after the tempest
4. the defeat of the turks
The dominant images are associated with
1. love
2. nature
3. sailing
4. war
The scene reveals the speaker's
1. fear adventure
2. affection for his wife
3. suspicion of his wife
4. fulfilment as a warrior
The language of the extract is best described as .....
1. ironical
2. humorous
3. hyperbolical
4. sarcastic

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

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Discuss the significance of Agbogbloshie Market in novel.
Examine the relationship between the street child and the title of the novel. Bayo Adebowale: Lonely Days

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Comment on the significance of moonlit nights among the people of Kufi in the novel
Examine the role of Uncle Deyo in the novel

Section B - Non-African Prose

Answer one question only from this section

Richard Wright: Native Son

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Mow is Henry Dalton portrayed in the novel?
Examine the significance of Bigger Thomas’ trial in the novel.

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Horace Walnole: The Castle of Otranto Comment on the attitudes of women to their roles in the novel..
Examine the use of irony 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

Dele Charley: The Blood of a Stranger

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Examine the role of the shrine in the culture of Mando Land.
How does the relationship between Santigi and Kindo affect the future of Mando land?

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Frank Ogodo Ogbeche: Harvest of Corruption Consider any three dramatic elements used to develop the plot.
How is ACP Yakubu presented in the play?

Section B - Non-African Drama

Answer one question only from this section

Lorraine Hansberry: A Raisin in the Sun

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Comment on the character and role of Asagai in the play.
Consider the relationship between Mama and Travis

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Oliver Goldsmith: She Stoops to Conquer Discuss the view that Tony is to blame for the failure of Hastings’s plan to elope with Constance
Discuss the information provided by Act 1 and how :t advances the plot of the play.

Section A - African Poetry

Answer one question only from this section

Comment on the poet's use of rhetorical questions in Vanity
Examine the personas resolve to be a revolutionary in The Dining Table.

Section B - Non-African Poetry

Answer one question only from this section

Discuss the defects of summer’s day as highlighted by the poet in Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?
Examine the poet’s use of sight and sound images in Frost’s Birches,