WAEC SSCE - Literature In English - 2023 (Objective)

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

allusion

simile

parallelism

personification

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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

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

euphemism

hyperbole

oxymoron

paradox

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

comedy

pantomime

panegyric

melodrama

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Reading the poem, one notices that the poet is being

hyperbolic

euphemistic

ironic

sarcastic

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The last paragraph illustrates

anti-climax

rising action

suspense

foreshadow

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The speaker and the addressee are

father and daughter

master and servant

lovers

friends

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Jonsey's opening speech illustrates

epilogue

soliloquy

mime

aside

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The moon looked on the massacre in horror ! illustrates

pathetic fallacy

prologue

epilogue

transferred epithet

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The speaker has just said farewell to

Helena

Demetrius

Hermia

Lysander

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

parable

epitaph

wisecrack

epigram

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The attitude of the writer towards Sasu is one of

surprise

anger

approval

disdain

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child of scorn illustrates

euphemism

contrast

metaphor

metonymy

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

heroic

flat

choral

sound

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The speaker is in

the woods

his apartment

a street

the palace

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The speaker is

Hippolyta

Lysander

Pyramus

Bottom

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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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The character that speaks after the speaker is

Lysander

Demetrius

Titania

Hippolyta

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The prevailing atmosphere is

pleasant

drab

tense

serene

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The speaker is

Hermia

Helena

Hippolyta

Tatiana

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The dominant literary device used in the extract is

parallelism

apostrophe

personification

antithesis

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The metrical structure is predominantly

trochaic

dactyllic

iambic

spondaic

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The character that delivers the prologue is

Snug

Starveling

Snout

Quince

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A short poem lamenting the death of someone is

an ode

a threnody

a sonnet

an epic

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A dead metaphor is

overused and ineffective

implied and not funny

implied and underused

overused and funny

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The third stanza of the Shakespearean sonnet is

quatrain

octave

sextet

couplet

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In the Town hall is the

setting

location

atmosphere

stage

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Come, thou gentle day illustrates

apostrophe

irony

paradox

euphemism

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Exaggerating one's personal features for comic effect is

caricature

lampoon

contrast

satire

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The speaker is

Lysander

Thisbe

Egeus

Tatiana

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Seven metrical feet in a line of a stanza is

hexametre

heptametre

septet

triolet

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A fable is also known as

an apologue

an epigram

a farce

a parody

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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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Bassy is a ____ in the play.

narrator

director

producer

character

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

alliteration

onomatopoeia

assonance

personification

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The character that speaks before the speaker

Demetrius

Theseus

Pyramus

Hippolyta

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The speech is made in

Oberon's place

the woods

the Queen's palace

Theseus' palace

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Ibeere 39 Ìròyìn

The speaker is addressing

Helena

Hermia

Demetrius

himself

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Ibeere 40 Ìròyìn

The speech shows that the speaker is

high spirits

dissappointed

excited

in a bad mood

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The extract presents the image of a

enough time

bright day

dark night

calm weather

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The two stanzas are built on

alternate rhyme

identical rhymes

couplets

run-on lines

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The speaker's mood stems from

being rejected by the lover

having to go into the forest

wanting to punish Hermia

meeting with Hermia

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The third stanza of the Shakespearean sonnet is

couplet

sextet

octave

quatrain

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After the speech, the speaker

begins to dance

laughs uncontrollably

falls asleep

starts crying

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In the last stanza, the persona is

fantasizing

angry

malnourished

pretending

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The speaker is

Egeus

Hermia

Demetrius

Helena

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Ibeere 48 Ìròyìn

Jonsey's speech Your mayoral hopeful is addressed to

the audience

Bassey

no one

himself

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

an enduring love

a family love

an undying love

a fickle love

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Letters, journals and diaries are examples of

faction

meta-fiction

fiction

non-fiction

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