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Literature In English Past Questions and Answers

Waec Literature In English Questions

Question 1481:
The writer's attitude to the scene is one of _________
  • A Anxiety
  • B Awe
  • C Contempt
  • D Indiference
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Question 1482:
The expression million voices is used as _________
  • A Conceit
  • B Euphemism
  • C Hyperbole
  • D Metonymy
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Question 1483:
A ship in the last line symbolises _________
  • A Despair.
  • B Hope
  • C Pirates
  • D Sailors
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Question 1484:
Read the poem and answer Questions 26 to 30.
Oft in the stilly night
Ere slumber's chain has bound me
Fond memory brings the light
of other days around me:
The smiles, the tears
of boyhood years.
The words of love then spoken;
The eyes that shone
How dimm'd and.gone
The cheerful hearts now broken!
Thus in the stilly night
Ere slumber's chain has bound me.
The theme is about the poet's _________
  • A Broken love affairs.
  • B Fee the stilly night.
  • C Sleepless night.
  • D Yearning for happier times
    gone
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Question 1485:
Read the poem and answer Questions 26 to 30.
Oft in the stilly night
Ere slumber's chain has bound me
Fond memory brings the light
of other days around me:
The smiles, the tears
of boyhood years.
The words of love then spoken;
The eyes that shone
How dimm'd and.gone
The cheerful hearts now broken!
Thus in the stilly night
Ere slumber's chain has bound me.
The theme of the poem is presented essentially through ________
  • A Assonance
  • B Contrast.
  • C Paradox
  • D Repetition
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