WAEC SSCE - Literature In English - 2023 (Objective)

Ajụjụ 1 Ripọtì

The dominant literary device used in the extract is

parallelism

apostrophe

personification

antithesis

Akọwa Nkọwa

Lee Azịza

Ajụjụ 2 Ripọtì

The metrical structure is predominantly

trochaic

dactyllic

iambic

spondaic

Akọwa Nkọwa

Lee Azịza

Ajụjụ 3 Ripọtì

A dead metaphor is

overused and ineffective

implied and not funny

implied and underused

overused and funny

Akọwa Nkọwa

Lee Azịza

Ajụjụ 4 Ripọtì

Resolution in a literary work is also referred to as

events that increase action

final outcome

the complication

event that increases tension

Akọwa Nkọwa

Lee Azịza

Ajụjụ 5 Ripọtì

After the speech, the speaker

begins to dance

laughs uncontrollably

falls asleep

starts crying

Akọwa Nkọwa

Lee Azịza

Ajụjụ 6 Ripọtì

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

synechdoche

hyperbole

metonymy

pun

Akọwa Nkọwa

Lee Azịza

Ajụjụ 7 Ripọtì

The speech is made in

Oberon's place

the woods

the Queen's palace

Theseus' palace

Akọwa Nkọwa

Lee Azịza

Ajụjụ 8 Ripọtì

The speaker is

Lysander

Thisbe

Egeus

Tatiana

Akọwa Nkọwa

Lee Azịza

Ajụjụ 9 Ripọtì

The speaker is

Egeus

Hermia

Demetrius

Helena

Akọwa Nkọwa

Lee Azịza

Ajụjụ 10 Ripọtì

Bassy is a ____ in the play.

narrator

director

producer

character

Akọwa Nkọwa

Lee Azịza

Ajụjụ 11 Ripọtì

The speaker's mood stems from

being rejected by the lover

having to go into the forest

wanting to punish Hermia

meeting with Hermia

Akọwa Nkọwa

Lee Azịza

Ajụjụ 12 Ripọtì

Reading the poem, one notices that the poet is being

hyperbolic

euphemistic

ironic

sarcastic

Akọwa Nkọwa

Lee Azịza

Ajụjụ 13 Ripọtì

child of scorn illustrates

euphemism

contrast

metaphor

metonymy

Akọwa Nkọwa

Lee Azịza

Ajụjụ 14 Ripọtì

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

alliteration

onomatopoeia

assonance

personification

Akọwa Nkọwa

Lee Azịza

Ajụjụ 15 Ripọtì

The character that delivers the prologue is

Snug

Starveling

Snout

Quince

Akọwa Nkọwa

Lee Azịza

Ajụjụ 16 Ripọtì

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

heroic

flat

choral

sound

Akọwa Nkọwa

Lee Azịza

Ajụjụ 17 Ripọtì

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

comedy

pantomime

panegyric

melodrama

Akọwa Nkọwa

Lee Azịza

Ajụjụ 18 Ripọtì

Exaggerating one's personal features for comic effect is

caricature

lampoon

contrast

satire

Akọwa Nkọwa

Lee Azịza

Ajụjụ 19 Ripọtì

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

an enduring love

a family love

an undying love

a fickle love

Akọwa Nkọwa

Lee Azịza

Ajụjụ 20 Ripọtì

The third stanza of the Shakespearean sonnet is

couplet

sextet

octave

quatrain

Akọwa Nkọwa

Lee Azịza

Ajụjụ 21 Ripọtì

Come, thou gentle day illustrates

apostrophe

irony

paradox

euphemism

Akọwa Nkọwa

Lee Azịza

Ajụjụ 22 Ripọtì

The character that speaks before the speaker

Demetrius

Theseus

Pyramus

Hippolyta

Akọwa Nkọwa

Lee Azịza

Ajụjụ 23 Ripọtì

The attitude of the writer towards Sasu is one of

surprise

anger

approval

disdain

Akọwa Nkọwa

Lee Azịza

Ajụjụ 24 Ripọtì

The prevailing atmosphere is

pleasant

drab

tense

serene

Akọwa Nkọwa

Lee Azịza

Ajụjụ 25 Ripọtì

The speech shows that the speaker is

high spirits

dissappointed

excited

in a bad mood

Akọwa Nkọwa

Lee Azịza

Ajụjụ 26 Ripọtì

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

euphemism

hyperbole

oxymoron

paradox

Akọwa Nkọwa

Lee Azịza

Ajụjụ 27 Ripọtì

Jonsey's opening speech illustrates

epilogue

soliloquy

mime

aside

Akọwa Nkọwa

Lee Azịza

Ajụjụ 28 Ripọtì

The two stanzas are built on

alternate rhyme

identical rhymes

couplets

run-on lines

Akọwa Nkọwa

Lee Azịza

Ajụjụ 29 Ripọtì

The last paragraph illustrates

anti-climax

rising action

suspense

foreshadow

Akọwa Nkọwa

Lee Azịza

Ajụjụ 30 Ripọtì

Letters, journals and diaries are examples of

faction

meta-fiction

fiction

non-fiction

Akọwa Nkọwa

Lee Azịza

Ajụjụ 31 Ripọtì

A fable is also known as

an apologue

an epigram

a farce

a parody

Akọwa Nkọwa

Lee Azịza

Ajụjụ 32 Ripọtì

The extract presents the image of a

enough time

bright day

dark night

calm weather

Akọwa Nkọwa

Lee Azịza

Ajụjụ 33 Ripọtì

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

personification and simile

personification and metaphor

simile and metaphor

assonance and simile

Akọwa Nkọwa

Lee Azịza

Ajụjụ 34 Ripọtì

The character that speaks after the speaker is

Lysander

Demetrius

Titania

Hippolyta

Akọwa Nkọwa

Lee Azịza

Ajụjụ 35 Ripọtì

The speaker is

Hermia

Helena

Hippolyta

Tatiana

Akọwa Nkọwa

Lee Azịza

Ajụjụ 36 Ripọtì

The moon looked on the massacre in horror ! illustrates

pathetic fallacy

prologue

epilogue

transferred epithet

Akọwa Nkọwa

Lee Azịza

Ajụjụ 37 Ripọtì

In the last stanza, the persona is

fantasizing

angry

malnourished

pretending

Akọwa Nkọwa

Lee Azịza

Ajụjụ 38 Ripọtì

The speaker is in

the woods

his apartment

a street

the palace

Akọwa Nkọwa

Lee Azịza

Ajụjụ 39 Ripọtì

A short poem lamenting the death of someone is

an ode

a threnody

a sonnet

an epic

Akọwa Nkọwa

Lee Azịza

Ajụjụ 40 Ripọtì

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

parable

epitaph

wisecrack

epigram

Akọwa Nkọwa

Lee Azịza

Ajụjụ 41 Ripọtì

The speaker is addressing

Helena

Hermia

Demetrius

himself

Akọwa Nkọwa

Lee Azịza

Ajụjụ 42 Ripọtì

The third stanza of the Shakespearean sonnet is

quatrain

octave

sextet

couplet

Akọwa Nkọwa

Lee Azịza

Ajụjụ 43 Ripọtì

The speaker and the addressee are

father and daughter

master and servant

lovers

friends

Akọwa Nkọwa

Lee Azịza

Ajụjụ 44 Ripọtì

In the Town hall is the

setting

location

atmosphere

stage

Akọwa Nkọwa

Lee Azịza

Ajụjụ 45 Ripọtì

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

allusion

simile

parallelism

personification

Akọwa Nkọwa

Lee Azịza

Ajụjụ 46 Ripọtì

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

Akọwa Nkọwa

Lee Azịza

Ajụjụ 47 Ripọtì

The speaker has just said farewell to

Helena

Demetrius

Hermia

Lysander

Akọwa Nkọwa

Lee Azịza

Ajụjụ 48 Ripọtì

Seven metrical feet in a line of a stanza is

hexametre

heptametre

septet

triolet

Akọwa Nkọwa

Lee Azịza

Ajụjụ 49 Ripọtì

Jonsey's speech Your mayoral hopeful is addressed to

the audience

Bassey

no one

himself

Akọwa Nkọwa

Lee Azịza

Ajụjụ 50 Ripọtì

The speaker is

Hippolyta

Lysander

Pyramus

Bottom

Akọwa Nkọwa

Lee Azịza






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