Literature in English Past Questions

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Question 1391
waec 1998

The underlined expression contains a

Asimile
Bmetaphor
Cpersonification
Dlitotes
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Question 1392
waec 1998

The feeling of the poet is one of

Aanxiety
Bgaiety
Csadness
Dfrustration
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Question 1393
waec 1998

The predominant literary device used in the extract is

Ahyperbole
Bepigram
Coxymoron
Dapostrophe
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Question 1394
waec 1998

The poem is an example of

Aa lyric
Ba dirge
Can ode
Dan epic
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Question 1395
waec 1998

The poem is an example of

Aa lyric
Ba dirge
Can ode
Dan epic
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Question 1396
waec 1998

From the last sentence, it is obvious that the couple

Ais happy
Bis lonely
Cis childless
Dhas a child
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Question 1397
waec 1998

What made the woman's world collapse is

Afalling in love with her husband in winter
Bcutting short their honeymoon
Ctravelling aboard a ship
Dtheir movement to Africa
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Question 1398
waec 1998

'From that day her world collapsed' shows that the woman is

Abetter off
Bwise
Cafraid
Dunhappy
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Question 1399
waec 1998

In England, she had loved her husband, in Africa, She

Aresented him
Baccepted him
Cenjoyed her honeymoon
Dencouraged him
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Question 1400
waec 1998

The figure of speech used in the first sentence is

Apersonification
Bmetaphor
Csimile
Dmetonymy
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Question 1401
waec 1998

The underlined expression is an example of

Ahyperbole
Bmetaphor
Csimile
Dpersonification
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Question 1402
waec 1998

The extract is an example of

Anarrative prose
Bdescriptive prose
Cimaginative prose
Dexpository prose
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Question 1403
waec 1998

The narrator's companion has just

Adied
Barrived
Crelaxed
Dcollapsed
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Question 1404
waec 1998

The mood of the narrator is one of

Ashock
Bindifference
Chappiness
Dkindness
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Question 1405
waec 1998

The setting of this extract is the

Afield
Bstream
Cfarm
Dmountain
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Question 1406
waec 1998
Pick the odd item from the list
Asentence
Bparagraph
Cexpression
Dfiction
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Question 1407
waec 1998
The character that opposses the hero in a novel is called the
Aprotagonist
Bantagonist
Cvillan
Dclown
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Question 1408
waec 1998
The main female character in a play is called
Ahero
Bheroine
Cclown
Dantagonist
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Question 1409
waec 1998
The omniscient narrator
Auses flashback
Bknows all about character and events
Cmakes reference to future incidents
Dknows all about the author
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Question 1410
waec 1998

The underlined words in lines 1 and 4 are example of

Aexternal rhyme
Binternal rhyme
Cend rhyme
Dalternate rhyme
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