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Literature In English Past Questions and Answers

Waec Literature In English Questions

Question 1461:
A fictional prose which is neither a novel nor a short story is a/an __________
  • A Allegory
  • B Fable
  • C Novella
  • D Novelette
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Question 1462:
Condensed use of language is a dominant feature of ___________
  • A Comedy
  • B Poetry
  • C Prose
  • D Tragedy
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Question 1463:
The sudden reversal of a character's fortune in a literary work is _________
  • A Denouement
  • B Hamartia
  • C Hubris
  • D Peripeteia
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Question 1464:
Read the extract below and answer Questions 5 to 7.
With the pen, he wrote kings into reality
With his words, kingdoms arose,
Those same words, slaves inhaled
Their hands building walls, their feet tromping territories
His pen was like the breath of life.
The underlined words illustrate ________
  • A Hyperbole
  • B Irony
  • C Metonymy
  • D Paradox
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Question 1465:
hands and feet in line 4 illustrate _________
  • A Contrast
  • B Litotes
  • C Personification
  • D Synecdoche
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