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Literature In English Past Questions and Answers

Waec Literature In English Questions

Question 516:
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 response given to this speech indicates that the attempt was
  • A Unsuccesful
  • B Successful
  • C Progressing
  • D Dangerous
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Question 517:
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 character being addressed is
  • A Hamlet
  • B Laertes
  • C Ophelia
  • D Horatio
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Question 518:
Read the extract and answer the question
Why, now you speak
Like a good child and a true gentleman.
That I am most sensible in grief for it,
It shall as level to your judgement pierceAs day does to your eye.
(Act Four Scene V, lines 128 - 133)
The speaker is
  • A The king
  • B The queen
  • C The ghost
  • D Polonius
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Question 519:
Read the extract and answer the question
Why, now you speak
Like a good child and a true gentleman.
That I am most sensible in grief for it,
It shall as level to your judgement pierceAs day does to your eye.
(Act Four Scene V, lines 128 - 133)
The underlined statement illustrates
  • A Irony
  • B Metaphor
  • C Paradox
  • D Simile
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Question 520:
Read the extract and answer the question
Why, now you speak
Like a good child and a true gentleman.
That I am most sensible in grief for it,
It shall as level to your judgement pierceAs day does to your eye.
(Act Four Scene V, lines 128 - 133)
The character who has just been murdered is
  • A Hamlet
  • B Gertrude
  • C Polonius
  • D Claudius
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