2013 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

_________is fundamental to a play or novel.
1. Mime
2. Conflict
3. Flashback
4. Epilogue.
A long and serious narrative about heroic characters is a/an
1. burlesque.
2. ballad.
3. epic.
4. elegy.
The device used in “light as wind on water laid” is
1. rhyme.
2. simile.
3. onomatopoeia.
4. pun.
"The fire gnawed ceaselessly at the bark of the tree" illustrates
1. personification.
2. epithet.
3. allusion.
4. paradox.
A hyperbole is also referred to as
1. irony.
2. paradox.
3. exaggeration.
4. understatement.
This book should fill the memory, rule the heart and guide the feet. The above expression illustrates the use of
1. repetition.
2. remain.
3. synecdoche.
4. metaphor.
The author's attitude towards the subject being treated is
1. mood.
2. tone.
3. feeling.
4. atmosphere.
One of the following makes use of gesture only:
1. comedy.
2. lampoon.
3. mime.
4. satire.
An omniscient narrator in a novel
1. detaches himself from the story.
2. knows nothing about the characters and event.
3. knows anything about characters and event.
4. is a character in the story.
In poetry __________ is made up of stressed and unstressed syllables
1. an iambus
2. an anapaest
3. trochee
4. dactyll
Blank verse has no
1. metre
2. rhyme
3. rhythm
4. imagery
A very brief story is an
1. allusion
2. autobiography
3. allegory
4. anecdote
An epilogue
1. introduces a play.
2. develops characters.
3. sums up play.
4. introduces characters.
The king has joined his ancestors' is a example of
1. euphemism.
2. eulogy.
3. malapropism.
4. trilogy.
In the line “season of mist and mellow fruitfulness”, the main appeal is the sense of
1. touch
2. sight
3. hearing
4. smell.
A question used for effect which does not require an answer is
1. oratorial
2. antithetical.
3. anticlimactic
4. rhetorical
''The pen is mightier than the sword" is an example of
1. symbol.
2. metaphor.
3. metonymy.
4. oxymoron.
In a play, unfolding events reach their peak in the
1. climax.
2. denouement.
3. catharses.
4. conflict.
"But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near" illustrates
1. metaphor
2. apostrophe
3. oxymoron
4. metonymy
A short witty saying is a/an
1. epitaph.
2. sonnet.
3. limerick.
4. epigram.

Part 2: Unseen Prose and Poetry

Read the passage below and answer questions 21 to 25

As they trooped off down the field with their sullen dogs, the famer started the tractor up and the cutter blade blurred into life.

Left alone, Grooby sank into a shocked stupor. His mind whirled around like a fly that dared not alight. A blank vacancy held him. He seemed unable to move, even to wipe away the swat that collected in his eyebrows and leaked down into his eyes. He sensed that the sun had settled over the earth, so that the air was actually burning gas. He watched the tractor dwindle in the bottom of the field, as if it were melting into a glittering muddle in the haze dwindle in the bottom of the field, as if it were melting into a glittering muddle in the haze.

" the cutter blade blurred into life". The above expression appeals to the sense of
1. hearing.
2. touch.
3. sight.
4. taste.
"The air was actually burning gas" is a
1. personification.
2. euphemism.
3. metaphor.
4. paradox.
The diction conveys a feeling of
1. hope.
2. helplessness.
3. anger.
4. indifference.
The expression "like fly that dared not alight" is a/an
1. simile.
2. hyperbole.
3. irony.
4. alliteration.
The setting of the extract is
1. dawn.
2. midday.
3. evening.
4. night.

I'm going soldering:
Mad the rhythm runs,
With drumming and with trumpeting
And glory of the guns.
l've come home again:
know that blood is red;
know how sodden falls the rain

The theme of the poem is best described as the
1. love of war.
2. glory of war.
3. excitement of war.
4. reality of war.
Mad the rhythm runs is in example of
1. pathos
2. oxymoron
3. bathos
4. inversion
The dominant sound device in the second stanza is
1. alliteration
2. assonance
3. onomatopoeia
4. repetition
The rhyme scheme in the first stanza is
1. aabb
2. abab
3. abaa
4. aabc
The two contrasting moods in the poem are
1. sadness and hope
2. bravery and cowardice
3. excitement
4. calmness and anxiety.

Section B

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: The Tempest

Read the extract and answer questions 31 - 35.

Thou liest, most ignorant monster! I am in case to justle a constable. Why, thou deboshed fish, thou, was there ever man a coward that hath drunk so much sack as I today. Wilt thou tell a monstrous lie, being but half a fish and half a monster?

(ACT III, Scene Two, lines 23 - 27)

The speaker is
1. Stephano
2. Caliban
3. Trinculo
4. Adrian
The character addressed is
1. Trinculo
2. Stephano
3. Sebastian
4. Caliban
The "lie" is that the speaker is a/an
1. drunkard
2. coward
3. ass
4. idiot
The addressee asks that the speaker be
1. punished severely
2. hanged on a tree
3. beaten to death
4. bitten to death
Later in the scene the addressee proposes a plot to
1. make Trinculo king of the island
2. kill Prospero
3. steal Miranda
4. rob Prospero of his clothes

Read the extract and answer questions 36-40.

You are three men of sin, whom Destiny -That both to instrument this lower world And what is in't - the never-surfeited sea Hath caused to belch up you; and on this island, Where man doth not inhabit - you 'mongst men Being most unfit to live.

(Act II, Scene Three, lines 53 - 58)

The speaker is
1. Prospero
2. Miranda
3. Ariel
4. Gonzalo
The "three men of sin" are
1. Alonso, Gonzalo and Antonio
2. Alonso, Antonio and Sebastian
3. Antonio, Sebastian and Gonzalo
4. Sebastian, Gonzalo and Antonio
In the first line, 'Destiny' is
1. metaphor
2. personification
3. allusion
4. euphemism
The speaker immediately
1. reports them to Prospero
2. makes them repent
3. drives them away
4. makes them go mad temporarily.
A character in the scene whom Prospero admires is
1. Ferdinand
2. Gonzalo
3. Adnan
4. Francisco

Read the extract and answer question 41 - 45

Look thou be true. Do not give dalliance
Too much the rein. The strongest oaths are straw
To the fire I' the blood. be more abstemious
Or else, good night your vow!
(Act IV, Scene One, lines 51 - 54)

The speaker is
1. Alonso
2. Prospero
3. Gonzalo
4. Ferdinand
The character addressed is
1. Miranda
2. Antonio
3. Ferdinand
4. Sebastian
The literary device in lines 52 and 53 Is
1. personification
2. simile
3. metaphor
4. synecdoche
Another character present in the scene Is
1. Caliban
2. Trinculo
3. Stephano
4. Miranda
The "oath' referred to in the extract is that
1. Miranda shall not give in to Ferdinand
2. Ferdinand shall not have intimate contact with Miranda
3. Miranda shall vow to be faithful to Ferdinand
4. Ferdinand shall not tell his father about Miranda.