2020 Literature WAEC Objective Past Questions CBT

A situation where an audience is aware of an action a character is ignorant of is

A fictional prose which is neither a novel nor a short story is a/an

Condensed use of language is a dominant feature of

The sudden reversal of a character’s fortune in a literary work is

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With the pen, he wrote King’s reality.

With his words, kingdoms arose.

Those same words, slaves inhaled.

Their hands building walls, their feet trumping territories.

His pen was like the breath of life.

The underlined words illustrate

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With the pen, he wrote King’s reality.

With his words, kingdoms arose.

Those same words, slaves inhaled.

Their hands building walls, their feet trumping territories.

His pen was like the breath of life.

“Hands” and “feet” in line 4 illustrate

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With the pen, he wrote King’s reality.

With his words, kingdoms arose.

Those same words, slaves inhaled.

Their hands building walls, their feet trumping territories.

His pen was like the breath of life.

His pen was like the breath of life exemplifies

Comic relief occurs in

One week of fasting makes one weak is an example of

Students rarely read Julius Caesar these days illustrates

In literature, the term poetic justice applies to

Ascribing human moods to nature, as in a playful-breeze illustrates

The end of a performance is followed by

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Marching  along  fifty score strong

Great hearted gentlemen

Singing this song.

The underlined words illustrate

A short poem with a witty or sarcastic ending is a/an

“The big boulder blasted the house”, illustrates

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“I burn and freeze like ice” creates an impression of extreme fear.

The dominant literary device used in the line is

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“I burn and freeze like ice” creates an impression of extreme fear.

The feeling of the narrator in the extract is one of

Which of the following is written by an African playwright?

Which of the following is written by a Non-African Poet?

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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 is now the other; then all is but a boiling 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!’.

The most suitable title for the passage is

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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 is now the other; then all is but a boiling 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!’.

The predominant use of long vowels in the first sentence heightens the ______ of the waves.

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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 is now the other; then all is but a boiling 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!’.

The writer’s attitude to the scene is one of

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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 is now the other; then all is but a boiling 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!’.

The expression “million voices” is used as

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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 is now the other; then all is but a boiling 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!’.

“A ship” in the last line symbolises

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Oft in the stilly night

Ere slumber’s chain has bound me

Fond memory brings the light

of other days around me:

The smiles, the tears

of boyhood years.

The words of love the spoken;

The eyes that shone

How dimm’d and gone

The cheerful hearts now broken!

Thus in the stilly night

Ere slumber’s chain has bound me

Sad memory brings the light

of other days around me.

The theme is about the poet’s

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Oft in the stilly night

Ere slumber’s chain has bound me

Fond memory brings the light

of other days around me:

The smiles, the tears

of boyhood years.

The words of love the spoken;

The eyes that shone

How dimm’d and gone

The cheerful hearts now broken!

Thus in the stilly night

Ere slumber’s chain has bound me

Sad memory brings the light

of other days around me.

The theme of the poem is presented essentially through

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Oft in the stilly night

Ere slumber’s chain has bound me

Fond memory brings the light

of other days around me:

The smiles, the tears

of boyhood years.

The words of love the spoken;

The eyes that shone

How dimm’d and gone

The cheerful hearts now broken!

Thus in the stilly night

Ere slumber’s chain has bound me

Sad memory brings the light

of other days around me.

The two words that given hint of the poets unhappiness are

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Oft in the stilly night

Ere slumber’s chain has bound me

Fond memory brings the light

of other days around me:

The smiles, the tears

of boyhood years.

The words of love the spoken;

The eyes that shone

How dimm’d and gone

The cheerful hearts now broken!

Thus in the stilly night

Ere slumber’s chain has bound me

Sad memory brings the light

of other days around me.

The poet refers to memory as being “fond” and “sad” because it brings.

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Oft in the stilly night

Ere slumber’s chain has bound me

Fond memory brings the light

of other days around me:

The smiles, the tears

of boyhood years.

The words of love the spoken;

The eyes that shone

How dimm’d and gone

The cheerful hearts now broken!

Thus in the stilly night

Ere slumber’s chain has bound me

Sad memory brings the light

of other days around me.

The meaning of the expression, ‘Ere slumber’s chain has bound me’ is

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Zounds, sir y’are robbed! For shame, put on your gown!

Your heart is burst, you have lost half your soul.

Even now, now, very now, an old black ram

Is tupping your white ewe. Arise, arise!

Awake the snorting citizens with the bell,

Or else the devil will make a grandsire of you.

Arise I say!

(Act 1, Scene One, lines 83-89)

The speaker is

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Zounds, sir y’are robbed! For shame, put on your gown!

Your heart is burst, you have lost half your soul.

Even now, now, very now, an old black ram

Is tupping your white ewe. Arise, arise!

Awake the snorting citizens with the bell,

Or else the devil will make a grandsire of you.

Arise I say!

(Act 1, Scene One, lines 83-89)

The listener’s initial reaction to the speech is one of

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Zounds, sir y’are robbed! For shame, put on your gown!

Your heart is burst, you have lost half your soul.

Even now, now, very now, an old black ram

Is tupping your white ewe. Arise, arise!

Awake the snorting citizens with the bell,

Or else the devil will make a grandsire of you.

Arise I say!

(Act 1, Scene One, lines 83-89)

The underlined expression implies an attitude of

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Zounds, sir y’are robbed! For shame, put on your gown!

Your heart is burst, you have lost half your soul.

Even now, now, very now, an old black ram

Is tupping your white ewe. Arise, arise!

Awake the snorting citizens with the bell,

Or else the devil will make a grandsire of you.

Arise I say!

(Act 1, Scene One, lines 83-89)

…….. Y’ are robbed! refers to

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Zounds, sir y’are robbed! For shame, put on your gown!

Your heart is burst, you have lost half your soul.

Even now, now, very now, an old black ram

Is tupping your white ewe. Arise, arise!

Awake the snorting citizens with the bell,

Or else the devil will make a grandsire of you.

Arise I say!

(Act 1, Scene One, lines 83-89)

The speaker is

The speaker is

The speaker is addressing

The mood is that of

“………. so good a commander” refers to

The underlined expression exemplifies

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Speaker X: ….. Did he live now,

This sight would make him do a desperate turn;

Yea, curse his better angel from his side, 

And fall to reprobation.

Speaker Y: ‘T is pitiful; but yet lago knows’

That she with Cassio confessed it;

And she did gratify his amorous works

(Act V, Scene Two, lines 204-211)

……..he…… referred to by speaker x is

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Speaker X: ….. Did he live now,

This sight would make him do a desperate turn;

Yea, curse his better angel from his side, 

And fall to reprobation.

Speaker Y: ‘T is pitiful; but yet lago knows’

That she with Cassio confessed it;

And she did gratify his amorous works

(Act V, Scene Two, lines 204-211)

‘…….. do a desperate turn’ means

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Speaker X: ….. Did he live now,

This sight would make him do a desperate turn;

Yea, curse his better angel from his side, 

And fall to reprobation.

Speaker Y: ‘T is pitiful; but yet lago knows’

That she with Cassio confessed it;

And she did gratify his amorous works

(Act V, Scene Two, lines 204-211)

Speaker Y’s speech shows that

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Speaker X: ….. Did he live now,

This sight would make him do a desperate turn;

Yea, curse his better angel from his side, 

And fall to reprobation.

Speaker Y: ‘T is pitiful; but yet lago knows’

That she with Cassio confessed it;

And she did gratify his amorous works

(Act V, Scene Two, lines 204-211)

Speaker Y has just

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Speaker X: ….. Did he live now,

This sight would make him do a desperate turn;

Yea, curse his better angel from his side, 

And fall to reprobation.

Speaker Y: ‘T is pitiful; but yet lago knows’

That she with Cassio confessed it;

And she did gratify his amorous works

(Act V, Scene Two, lines 204-211)

Just after this dialogue

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O thou dull Moor, the handkerchief thou speak’st of

I found by fortune, and give my husband

For often with solemn earnestness –

More than indeed belonged to such a trifle –

He begged of me to steal’t

(Act V, Scene Two, lines 223 -227)

The speaker is

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O thou dull Moor, the handkerchief thou speak’st of

I found by fortune, and give my husband

For often with solemn earnestness –

More than indeed belonged to such a trifle –

He begged of me to steal’t

(Act V, Scene Two, lines 223 -227)

The speaker has just been threatened by

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O thou dull Moor, the handkerchief thou speak’st of

I found by fortune, and give my husband

For often with solemn earnestness –

More than indeed belonged to such a trifle –

He begged of me to steal’t

(Act V, Scene Two, lines 223 -227)

What has just happened is that

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O thou dull Moor, the handkerchief thou speak’st of

I found by fortune, and give my husband

For often with solemn earnestness –

More than indeed belonged to such a trifle –

He begged of me to steal’t

(Act V, Scene Two, lines 223 -227)

Soon after this, the speaker

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O thou dull Moor, the handkerchief thou speak’st of

I found by fortune, and give my husband

For often with solemn earnestness –

More than indeed belonged to such a trifle –

He begged of me to steal’t

(Act V, Scene Two, lines 223 -227)

The stage of the play is known as the