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Literature In English Past Questions and Answers

Waec Literature In English Questions

Question 511:
Read the extract and answer the question
Y : Do you know me, my lord?
Z : Excellent well; you are a fishmonger
Y : Not I, my lord.
Z : Then I would you were so honest a man.
Y : Honest, my lord!
Z : Ay, sir; to be honest, as this world goes. Is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.
(Act Two, Scene II, lines 173-179)
Speaker Z thinks Y is
  • A Very honest
  • B As dishonest as most people
  • C More dishonest than anyone
  • D More dishonest than ten thousand people
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Question 512:
Read the extract and answer the question
Y : Do you know me, my lord?
Z : Excellent well; you are a fishmonger
Y : Not I, my lord.
Z : Then I would you were so honest a man.
Y : Honest, my lord!
Z : Ay, sir; to be honest, as this world goes. Is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.
(Act Two, Scene II, lines 173-179)
The underlined statement illustrates
  • A Metaphor
  • B Simile
  • C Hyperbole
  • D Irony
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Question 513:
Read the extract and answer the question
And can you, by no drift of circumstance,
Get from him why he puts on this confusion,
Grating so harshly all his days of quiet,
With turbulent and dangerous lunacy?
(Act Three, Scene I, lines 1-4)
The speaker is
  • A Gertrude
  • B Ophelia
  • C Claudius
  • D Polonius
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Question 514:
Read the extract and answer the question
And can you, by no drift of circumstance,
Get from him why he puts on this confusion,
Grating so harshly all his days of quiet,
With turbulent and dangerous lunacy?
(Act Three, Scene I, lines 1-4)
The person being discussed is
  • A Voltimand
  • B Hamlet
  • C Ophelia
  • D Rosencrantz
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Question 515:
Read the extract and answer the question
And can you, by no drift of circumstance,
Get from him why he puts on this confusion,
Grating so harshly all his days of quiet,
With turbulent and dangerous lunacy?
(Act Three, Scene I, lines 1-4)
The characters being addressed are
  • A Marcellus and Horatio
  • B Bernado and Francisco
  • C Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
  • D Marcellus and Francisco
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