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Literature In English Past Questions and Answers

Waec Literature In English Questions

Question 571:
Read the passage and answer the question
world have been Heathcliff's miseries, and I watched and felt each from the beginning.My great thought in living is himself. If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be. And if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would be turned to a mighty stranger _ is should not seem a part of it. My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods; time will change it, I'm well aware, as winter changes the trees. My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath _ as source of little visible delight, but necessary. Nelly, I am Heathcliff!. He's always, always in my mind _ not as a pleasure to myself, but as my own being....
If all else perished and he remained illustrates
  • A Paradox
  • B Irony
  • C Bathos
  • D Antithesis
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Question 572:
Read the passage and answer the question
world have been Heathcliff's miseries, and I watched and felt each from the beginning.My great thought in living is himself. If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be. And if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would be turned to a mighty stranger _ is should not seem a part of it. My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods; time will change it, I'm well aware, as winter changes the trees. My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath _ as source of little visible delight, but necessary. Nelly, I am Heathcliff!. He's always, always in my mind _ not as a pleasure to myself, but as my own being....
The diction of the extract conveys the speaker's
  • A Contempt
  • B Despair
  • C Assurance
  • D Determination
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Question 573:
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: Hamlet
Read the extract below and answer the question
A : What, has this thing appeared again tonight?
B : I have seen nothing
(Act I, Scene one, lines 21-22)
Speaker A is
  • A Bernado
  • B Horatio
  • C Francisco
  • D Marcellus
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Question 574:
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: Hamlet
Read the extract below and answer the question
A : What, has this thing appeared again tonight?
B : I have seen nothing
(Act I, Scene one, lines 21-22)
The speaker is addressing
  • A Marcellus
  • B Francisco
  • C The ghost
  • D Horatio
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Question 575:
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: Hamlet
Read the extract below and answer the question
A : What, has this thing appeared again tonight?
B : I have seen nothing
(Act I, Scene one, lines 21-22)
Speaker B is
  • A Hamlet
  • B Francisco
  • C Marcellus
  • D Bernado
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