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Literature In English Past Questions and Answers

Waec Literature In English Questions

Question 981:
Read the poem and answer the question
I'm going soldering:Mad the rhythm runs
With drumming and with trumpeting
And glory of the guns.
I've come home again:
I know that blood is red;
I know how sodden falls the rain
Where flesh lies dead.
''Mad the rhythm runs'' is an example of
  • A Pathos
  • B Oxymoron
  • C Bathos
  • D Inversion
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Question 982:
Read the poem and answer the question
I'm going soldering:Mad the rhythm runs
With drumming and with trumpeting
And glory of the guns.
I've come home again:
I know that blood is red;
I know how sodden falls the rain
Where flesh lies dead.
The rhyme scheme in the first stanza is
  • A Aabb
  • B Abab
  • C Abbaa
  • D Aabc
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Question 983:
Read the poem and answer the question
I'm going soldering:Mad the rhythm runs
With drumming and with trumpeting
And glory of the guns.
I've come home again:
I know that blood is red;
I know how sodden falls the rain
Where flesh lies dead.
The dominant sound device in the second stanza is
  • A Alliteration
  • B Assonance
  • C Onomatopeia
  • D Repetition
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Question 984:
Read the poem and answer the question
I'm going soldering:Mad the rhythm runs
With drumming and with trumpeting
And glory of the guns.
I've come home again:
I know that blood is red;
I know how sodden falls the rain
Where flesh lies dead.
The two contrasting moods in the poem is are
  • A Sadness and hope
  • B Bravery and cowardice
  • C Excitement and disappointment
  • D Calmness and anxiety
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Question 985:
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: The Tempest
Read the extract and answer the question
Thou liest, most ignorant monster! I am in case to justle a constable. Why, thou deboshed fish, thou, was there ever man a coward that hath drunk so much sack as I today. Wilt thou tell a monstrous lie, being but half a fish and half a monster?
(act 111, scene two lines 23-27)
The speaker is
  • A Stephano
  • B Caliban
  • C Trinculo
  • D Adrian
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