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

1. 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
2. A fictional prose which is neither a hovel nor a short story is a/an ......
   1. allegory
   2. fable
   3. novella
   4. novelette
3. ' Condensed use of language is a dominant feature of ...... .
   1. comedy
   2. poetry
   3. prose
   4. tragedy
4. 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

5. The underlined words illustrate ......
   1. hyperbole
   2. irony
   3. metonymy
   4. paradox
6. hands and feet in line illustrate.......
   1. contrast
   2. litotes
   3. personification
   4. synecdoche
7. His pen was like the breath of life exemplifies.......
   1. bathos
   2. pathos
   3. satire
   4. simile
8. Comic relief occurs in.......
   1. comedies
   2. pastorals
   3. romance
   4. tragedies
9. One week of fasting makes one weak is an example of......
   1. apostrophe
   2. paradox
   3. pun
   4. sarcasm
10. Students rarely read Julius Caesar these days illustrates.........
    1. caesura.
    2. eponym
    3. oxymoron
    4. zeugma.
11. 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
12. Ascribing human moods to nature, as in a playful breeze illustrates .......
    1. humor
    2. pathetic fallacy.
    3. symbolism
    4. transferred epithet
13. The end of a performance is followed by.......
    1. a curtain call
    2. a curtain raiser
    3. epilogue
    4. interlude
Read the lines and answer 14
Marching along fifty score strong
Great hearted gentlemen singing this song

14. The underlined words illustrate ......
    1. assonance
    2. consonance
    3. onomatopoeia
    4. repetition
15. A short poem with a witty or sarcastic ending is a/an A.. B. . C. . D..
    1. ballad
    2. allegory
    3. epigram
    4. panegyric
16. . The big boulder blasted the hore il- lustrates A. alliteration.
    1. Option a
    2. Option b
    3. C. irony.
    4. paradox
17. The dominant literary device used in the lines is A. euphemism. B. hyper- bole. C. paradox. D. understatement. . The feeling of the narrator in the ex�tract is one of A. confusion. B. fa- tigue. C. love. D. joy. . Which of the following is written by an African playwright? A. She Stoops to Conquer B. A Raisin in the Sun C. Lonely Days D. The Blood of a stranger Drums B. The Dining Table C. The Schoolboy D. The Panic of Growing Older
    1. Option a
    2. Option b
    3. Option c
    4. Option d
18. Question 18
    1. Option a
    2. Option b
    3. Option c
    4. Option d
19. Question 19
    1. Option a
    2. Option b
    3. Option c
    4. Option d
20. Question 20
    1. Option a
    2. Option b
    3. Option c
    4. Option d

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 Js now the other; then all is but a boil�ing 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!’

21. Question 21
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    4. Option d
22. Question 22
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    4. Option d
23. Question 23
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24. Question 24
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25. Question 25
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    4. Option d
26. Question 26
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    4. Option d
27. Question 27
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    4. Option d
28. Question 28
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29. Question 29
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    4. Option d
30. Question 30
    1. Option a
    2. Option b
    3. Option c
    4. Option d

Section B

Answer all questions in this section

31. Question 31
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    4. Option d
32. Question 32
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33. Question 33
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34. Question 34
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35. Question 35
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36. Question 36
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37. Question 37
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38. Question 38
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39. Question 39
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40. Question 40
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41. Question 41
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42. Question 42
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43. Question 43
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44. Question 44
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45. Question 45
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46. Question 46
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47. Question 47
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48. Question 48
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49. Question 49
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50. Question 50
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    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. AMMA DARKO: Faceless
2. Question 2
3. BAYO ADEBOWALE : Lonely Days
4. Question 4

Section B - Non-African Prose

Answer one question only from this section

5. RICHARD WRIGHT: Native Son
6. Question 6
7. HORACLE WALPOLE: The Castle of Otranto
8. 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

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1. DELE CHARLEY: The Blood of a stranger
2. Question 2

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3. FRANK OGODO OGBECHE: Harvest of corruption
4. Question 4

Section B - Non-African Drama

Answer one question only from this section

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5. LORRAINE HAN SBERRY: A Raising in the sun
6. Question 6

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7. OLIVER GOLDSMITH: She Stoops to Conquer
8. Question 8

Section A - African Poetry

Answer one question only from this section

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

Section B - Non-African Poetry

Answer one question only from this section

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