WAEC SSCE - Literature In English - 2023 (Objective)

Tambaya 1 Rahoto

The speaker and the addressee are

father and daughter

master and servant

lovers

friends

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Duba Amsa

Tambaya 2 Rahoto

The third stanza of the Shakespearean sonnet is

couplet

sextet

octave

quatrain

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Duba Amsa

Tambaya 3 Rahoto

The speaker is

Egeus

Hermia

Demetrius

Helena

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Duba Amsa

Tambaya 4 Rahoto

it is not enough to speak, but to speak true illustrates

parable

epitaph

wisecrack

epigram

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Duba Amsa

Tambaya 5 Rahoto

The speaker is

Lysander

Thisbe

Egeus

Tatiana

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Duba Amsa

Tambaya 6 Rahoto

A dead metaphor is

overused and ineffective

implied and not funny

implied and underused

overused and funny

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Duba Amsa

Tambaya 7 Rahoto

The speech is made in

Oberon's place

the woods

the Queen's palace

Theseus' palace

Bayanin Amsa

Duba Amsa

Tambaya 8 Rahoto

The speaker is

Hermia

Helena

Hippolyta

Tatiana

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Duba Amsa

Tambaya 9 Rahoto

child of scorn illustrates

euphemism

contrast

metaphor

metonymy

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Duba Amsa

Tambaya 10 Rahoto

The third stanza of the Shakespearean sonnet is

quatrain

octave

sextet

couplet

Bayanin Amsa

Duba Amsa

Tambaya 11 Rahoto

A fable is also known as

an apologue

an epigram

a farce

a parody

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Duba Amsa

Tambaya 12 Rahoto

The speech shows that the speaker is

high spirits

dissappointed

excited

in a bad mood

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Duba Amsa

Tambaya 13 Rahoto

Come, thou gentle day illustrates

apostrophe

irony

paradox

euphemism

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Duba Amsa

Tambaya 14 Rahoto

In the Town hall is the

setting

location

atmosphere

stage

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Duba Amsa

Tambaya 15 Rahoto

Bassy is a ____ in the play.

narrator

director

producer

character

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Duba Amsa

Tambaya 16 Rahoto

Resolution in a literary work is also referred to as

events that increase action

final outcome

the complication

event that increases tension

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Duba Amsa

Tambaya 17 Rahoto

The character that speaks before the speaker

Demetrius

Theseus

Pyramus

Hippolyta

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Duba Amsa

Tambaya 18 Rahoto

The speaker resolves to tell

Lysander of Hermia's infidelity

Demetrius of Hermia's flight

Egeus of Hermia's flight

Theseus of Hermia's infidelity

Bayanin Amsa

Duba Amsa

Tambaya 19 Rahoto

Thy love ne'er alter, till thy sweet life end.' implies

an enduring love

a family love

an undying love

a fickle love

Bayanin Amsa

Duba Amsa

Tambaya 20 Rahoto

Now much beshrew my manners and my pride, illustrates the use of

alliteration

onomatopoeia

assonance

personification

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Duba Amsa

Tambaya 21 Rahoto

Exaggerating one's personal features for comic effect is

caricature

lampoon

contrast

satire

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Duba Amsa

Tambaya 22 Rahoto

A dramatic performance with scenes played by body movements or gestures without words known as

comedy

pantomime

panegyric

melodrama

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Duba Amsa

Tambaya 23 Rahoto

At the last head count, the population of the school was three thousand is an example of

synechdoche

hyperbole

metonymy

pun

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Duba Amsa

Tambaya 24 Rahoto

join in with it, lead it on, but, finally,veer it from illustrates

allusion

simile

parallelism

personification

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Duba Amsa

Tambaya 25 Rahoto

Jonsey's speech Your mayoral hopeful is addressed to

the audience

Bassey

no one

himself

Bayanin Amsa

Duba Amsa

Tambaya 26 Rahoto

The two stanzas are built on

alternate rhyme

identical rhymes

couplets

run-on lines

Bayanin Amsa

Duba Amsa

Tambaya 27 Rahoto

The attitude of the writer towards Sasu is one of

surprise

anger

approval

disdain

Bayanin Amsa

Duba Amsa

Tambaya 28 Rahoto

rattling like leaves in a storm, fear branded on their faces illustrates

personification and simile

personification and metaphor

simile and metaphor

assonance and simile

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Duba Amsa

Tambaya 29 Rahoto

The moon looked on the massacre in horror ! illustrates

pathetic fallacy

prologue

epilogue

transferred epithet

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Duba Amsa

Tambaya 30 Rahoto

The speaker has just said farewell to

Helena

Demetrius

Hermia

Lysander

Bayanin Amsa

Duba Amsa

Tambaya 31 Rahoto

The speaker is in

the woods

his apartment

a street

the palace

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Duba Amsa

Tambaya 32 Rahoto

Jonsey's opening speech illustrates

epilogue

soliloquy

mime

aside

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Duba Amsa

Tambaya 33 Rahoto

The character that speaks after the speaker is

Lysander

Demetrius

Titania

Hippolyta

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Duba Amsa

Tambaya 34 Rahoto

Reading the poem, one notices that the poet is being

hyperbolic

euphemistic

ironic

sarcastic

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Duba Amsa

Tambaya 35 Rahoto

Seven metrical feet in a line of a stanza is

hexametre

heptametre

septet

triolet

Bayanin Amsa

Duba Amsa

Tambaya 36 Rahoto

The speaker is

Hippolyta

Lysander

Pyramus

Bottom

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Duba Amsa

Tambaya 37 Rahoto

The character that delivers the prologue is

Snug

Starveling

Snout

Quince

Bayanin Amsa

Duba Amsa

Tambaya 38 Rahoto

The extract presents the image of a

enough time

bright day

dark night

calm weather

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Duba Amsa

Tambaya 39 Rahoto

After the speech, the speaker

begins to dance

laughs uncontrollably

falls asleep

starts crying

Bayanin Amsa

Duba Amsa

Tambaya 40 Rahoto

The last paragraph illustrates

anti-climax

rising action

suspense

foreshadow

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Duba Amsa

Tambaya 41 Rahoto

The speaker's mood stems from

being rejected by the lover

having to go into the forest

wanting to punish Hermia

meeting with Hermia

Bayanin Amsa

Duba Amsa

Tambaya 42 Rahoto

In the last stanza, the persona is

fantasizing

angry

malnourished

pretending

Bayanin Amsa

Duba Amsa

Tambaya 43 Rahoto

A character that is built around a single idea or quality is a _______ character.

heroic

flat

choral

sound

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Duba Amsa

Tambaya 44 Rahoto

The dominant literary device used in the extract is

parallelism

apostrophe

personification

antithesis

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Duba Amsa

Tambaya 45 Rahoto

The prevailing atmosphere is

pleasant

drab

tense

serene

Bayanin Amsa

Duba Amsa

Tambaya 46 Rahoto

That girl is too young to be put in the family way illustrates

euphemism

hyperbole

oxymoron

paradox

Bayanin Amsa

Duba Amsa

Tambaya 47 Rahoto

A short poem lamenting the death of someone is

an ode

a threnody

a sonnet

an epic

Bayanin Amsa

Duba Amsa

Tambaya 48 Rahoto

Letters, journals and diaries are examples of

faction

meta-fiction

fiction

non-fiction

Bayanin Amsa

Duba Amsa

Tambaya 49 Rahoto

The speaker is addressing

Helena

Hermia

Demetrius

himself

Bayanin Amsa

Duba Amsa

Tambaya 50 Rahoto

The metrical structure is predominantly

trochaic

dactyllic

iambic

spondaic

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