2016 Literature WAEC Past Objective Questions CBT

…………….. refers to the structure of a work of art.

Conflict in a literary work begins to unfold with

The character assumed by the author in his writing is

Oral literature is part of …………..

Poetry is written in ………..

Soliloquy is a ……… technique

The ……. produces comic relief in drama

A short play is also called a ………..

Read the stanza and answer this question

For days I wept and felt depressed
The one and all I loved had left
But then on me our Bill impressed
‘Your love is where she looks bereft’

The rhyme scheme is …………….

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For days I wept and felt depressed
The one and all I loved had left
But then on me our Bill impressed
‘Your love is where she looks bereft’

The lines are iambic

Read the stanza and answer this question

For days I wept and felt depressed
The one and all I loved had left
But then on me our Bill impressed
‘Your love is where she looks bereft’

The lines constitute

”The sun smiled gently on the scene” illustrates

The major part of the Petrarch sonnet is the

A Poem that celebrates an object, person or event is ……………

“That it will rain is not unlikely” illustrates the use of ………..

An…… is an indirect and usually unfavourable remark

‘Many hands make light work’ illustrates the use of

Through …….. the ills of society are criticised with the objective of having them corrected

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The livid waters roared and snarled and flapped
At the poor battered and weeping yacht.

The dominant device used in the lines is

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The livid waters roared and snarled and flapped
At the poor battered and weeping yacht.

The picture presented is one of

UNSEEN PROSE AND POETRY
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He was under the siege of three union executive members.
There was the Secretary standing over him ; there was the Treasurer puffing away at a cigarette; there was the Organiser lounging near the door, a deadpan look plastered on each of their faces like a death-mask.

Incredulous, he sat in a pensive mood. How cloud the others do such a thing? His discontent turned to silent anger that simmered.

”I think it is not right, ” he said, just managing not to explode from his growing anger.

”You sign that sheet, Mr President,” ordered the Secretary in a barely audible but stern voice.

”Why are you doing this?” he asked, his voice not giving any hint of the boiling cauldron of screaming anger in his chest.

”Will you sign, Mr President?”
”All right,” he said, now seething amiably.
He took his pen, picked up the sheet of paper and looked over the signatures. Then he proceeded to tear up the paper into shreds.

The attitude of the writer towards the President is one of

UNSEEN PROSE AND POETRY
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He was under the siege of three union executive members.
There was the Secretary standing over him ; there was the Treasurer puffing away at a cigarette; there was the Organiser lounging near the door, a deadpan look plastered on each of their faces like a death-mask.

Incredulous, he sat in a pensive mood. How cloud the others do such a thing? His discontent turned to silent anger that simmered.

”I think it is not right, ” he said, just managing not to explode from his growing anger.

”You sign that sheet, Mr President,” ordered the Secretary in a barely audible but stern voice.

”Why are you doing this?” he asked, his voice not giving any hint of the boiling cauldron of screaming anger in his chest.

”Will you sign, Mr President?”
”All right,” he said, now seething amiably.
He took his pen, picked up the sheet of paper and looked over the signatures. Then he proceeded to tear up the paper into shreds.

The prevailing atmosphere is _________

UNSEEN PROSE AND POETRY
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He was under the siege of three union executive members.
There was the Secretary standing over him; there was the Treasurer puffing away at a cigarette; there was the Organiser lounging near the door, a deadpan look plastered on each of their faces like a death-mask.

Incredulous, he sat in a pensive mood. How cloud the others do such a thing? His discontent turned to silent anger that simmered.

”I think it is not right, ” he said, just managing not to explode from his growing anger.

”You sign that sheet, Mr President,” ordered the Secretary in a barely audible but stern voice.

”Why are you doing this?” he asked, his voice not giving any hint of the boiling cauldron of screaming anger in his chest.

”Will you sign, Mr President?”
”All right,” he said, now seething amiably.
He took his pen, picked up the sheet of paper and looked over the signatures. Then he proceeded to tear up the paper into shreds.

The expression “plastered on each of their faces like a death-mask” illustrates

UNSEEN PROSE AND POETRY
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He was under the siege of three union executive members.
There was the Secretary standing over him ; there was the Treasurer puffing away at a cigarette; there was the Organiser lounging near the door, a deadpan look plastered on each of their faces like a death-mask.

Incredulous, he sat in a pensive mood. How cloud the others do such a thing? His discontent turned to silent anger that simmered.

”I think it is not right, ” he said, just managing not to explode from his growing anger.

”You sign that sheet, Mr President,” ordered the Secretary in a barely audible but stern voice.

”Why are you doing this?” he asked, his voice not giving any hint of the boiling cauldron of screaming anger in his chest.

”Will you sign, Mr President?”
”All right,” he said, now seething amiably.
He took his pen, picked up the sheet of paper and looked over the signatures. Then he proceeded to tear up the paper into shreds.

”……… screaming anger” is an example of

UNSEEN PROSE AND POETRY
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He was under the siege of three union executive members.
There was the Secretary standing over him; there was the Treasurer puffing away at a cigarette; there was the Organiser lounging near the door, a deadpan look plastered on each of their faces like a death-mask.

Incredulous, he sat in a pensive mood. How cloud the others do such a thing? His discontent turned to silent anger that simmered.

”I think it is not right, ” he said, just managing not to explode from his growing anger.

”You sign that sheet, Mr President,” ordered the Secretary in a barely audible but stern voice.

”Why are you doing this?” he asked, his voice not giving any hint of the boiling cauldron of screaming anger in his chest.

”Will you sign, Mr President?”
”All right,” he said, now seething amiably.
He took his pen, picked up the sheet of paper and looked over the signatures. Then he proceeded to tear up the paper into shreds.

The last paragraph illustrates

Read the poem and answer the question

We have come to the crossroads
And I must either leave or come with you
I lingered over the choice
But in the darkness of my doubts
You lifted the lamp of love
And I saw in your face
The road that I should take.

The theme of the poem is

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We have come to the crossroads
And I must either leave or come with you
I lingered over the choice
But in the darkness of my doubts
You lifted the lamp of love
And I saw in your face
The road that I should take.

The speaker is ………..

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We have come to the crossroads
And I must either leave or come with you
I lingered over the choice
But in the darkness of my doubts
You lifted the lamp of love
And I saw in your face
The road that I should take.

The dominant literary device used in the poem is

The mood of the poem is …………

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We have come to the crossroads
And I must either leave or come with you
I lingered over the choice
But in the darkness of my doubts
You lifted the lamp of love
And I saw in your face
The road that I should take.

The poem can be described as

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So opposite to marriage that she shunned
The wealthy, curled darlings of our nation,
Run from her guardage to the sooty bosom
Of such a thing as thou to fear, not to delight?
(Act 1, Scene Two, Lines 66 – 70)

The speaker is …………

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So opposite to marriage that she shunned
The wealthy, curled darlings of our nation,
Run from her guardage to the sooty bosom
Of such a thing as thou to fear, not to delight?
(Act 1, Scene Two, Lines 66 – 70)

The speaker is addressing ……..

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So opposite to marriage that she shunned
The wealthy, curled darlings of our nation,
Run from her guardage to the sooty bosom
Of such a thing as thou to fear, not to delight?
(Act 1, Scene Two, Lines 66 – 70)

”Sooty bosom” is a metaphor for

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So opposite to marriage that she shunned
The wealthy, curled darlings of our nation,
Run from her guardage to the sooty bosom
Of such a thing as thou to fear, not to delight?
(Act 1, Scene Two, Lines 66 – 70)

”Run from her guardege” refers to …………..

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So opposite to marriage that she shunned
The wealthy, curled darlings of our nation,
Run from her guardage to the sooty bosom
Of such a thing as thou to fear, not to delight?
(Act 1, Scene Two, Lines 66 – 70)

The setting is ……………

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So opposite to marriage that she shunned
The wealthy, curled darlings of our nation,
Run from her guardage to the sooty bosom
Of such a thing as thou to fear, not to delight?
(Act 1, Scene Two, Lines 66 – 70)

The speaker is ………..

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So opposite to marriage that she shunned
The wealthy, curled darlings of our nation,
Run from her guardage to the sooty bosom
Of such a thing as thou to fear, not to delight?
(Act 1, Scene Two, Lines 66 – 70)

The addressee is……………….

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So opposite to marriage that she shunned
The wealthy, curled darlings of our nation,
Run from her guardage to the sooty bosom
Of such a thing as thou to fear, not to delight?
(Act 1, Scene Two, Lines 66 – 70)

What has happened to the speaker?

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So opposite to marriage that she shunned
The wealthy, curled darlings of our nation,
Run from her guardage to the sooty bosom
Of such a thing as thou to fear, not to delight?
(Act 1, Scene Two, Lines 66 – 70)

The underlined expression shows that the speaker is

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So opposite to marriage that she shunned
The wealthy, curled darlings of our nation,
Run from her guardage to the sooty bosom
Of such a thing as thou to fear, not to delight?
(Act 1, Scene Two, Lines 66 – 70)

The setting is …………..

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Work on,
My medicine work! Thus credulous fools are caught,
And many worthy and chaste dames even thus,
All guiltless, meet reproach. What ho! My lord!
My lord, I say!
(Act IV, Scene One, Lines 45 – 49)

The speaker is ………..

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Work on,
My medicine work! Thus credulous fools are caught,
And many worthy and chaste dames even thus,
All guiltless, meet reproach. What ho! My lord!
My lord, I say!
(Act IV, Scene One, Lines 45 – 49)

The speaker is addressing …………..

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Work on,
My medicine work! Thus credulous fools are caught,
And many worthy and chaste dames even thus,
All guiltless, meet reproach. What ho! My lord!
My lord, I say!
(Act IV, Scene One, Lines 45 – 49)

Just before this speech

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Work on,
My medicine work! Thus credulous fools are caught,
And many worthy and chaste dames even thus,
All guiltless, meet reproach. What ho! My lord!
My lord, I say!
(Act IV, Scene One, Lines 45 – 49)

”medicine” in the extract refers to the speaker’s

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Work on,
My medicine work! Thus credulous fools are caught,
And many worthy and chaste dames even thus,
All guiltless, meet reproach. What ho! My lord!
My lord, I say!
(Act IV, Scene One, Lines 45 – 49)

The character that enters immediately after is …………..

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I am glad I have found this napkin;
This was her first remembrance from the Moor.
My wayward husband hath a hundred times
Wooed me to steal it; but she so loves the token
(For he conjured her she should ever keep it)
That she reserves it evermore about her
To kiss and talk to.
(Act III, Scene Three, Lines 289 – 95)

The speaker is ………..

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I am glad I have found this napkin;
This was her first remembrance from the Moor.
My wayward husband hath a hundred times
Wooed me to steal it, but she so loves the token
(For he conjured her she should ever keep it)
That she reserves it evermore about her
To kiss and talk to.
(Act III, Scene Three, Lines 289 – 95)

The characters that just left the scene are

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I am glad I have found this napkin;
This was her first remembrance from the Moor.
My wayward husband hath a hundred times
Wooed me to steal it, but she so loves the token
(For he conjured her she should ever keep it)
That she reserves it evermore about her
To kiss and talk to.
(Act III, Scene Three, Lines 289 – 95)

‘She’ in the extract refers to ………….

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I am glad I have found this napkin;
This was her first remembrance from the Moor.
My wayward husband hath a hundred times
Wooed me to steal it; but she so loves the token
(For he conjured her she should ever keep it)
That she reserves it evermore about her
To kiss and talk to.
(Act III, Scene Three, Lines 289 – 95)

‘My wayward husband’ refers to

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I am glad I have found this napkin;
This was her first remembrance from the Moor.
My wayward husband hath a hundred times
Wooed me to steal it; but she so loves the token
(For he conjured her she should ever keep it)
That she reserves it evermore about her
To kiss and talk to.
(Act III, Scene Three, Lines 289 – 95)

In the extract ”this napkin” is ”the token” of love between