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Literature In English Past Questions and Answers

Waec Literature In English Questions

Question 1526:
A story which explains a natural phenomenon or justifies the beliefs of a society is ____________
  • A Myth
  • B Legend
  • C Motif
  • D Fable
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Question 1527:
Read the extract below and answer questions9 to 11.
What happened to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?


The dominant literary device is ____________
  • A The epithet
  • B The rhetorical question
  • C Verbal irony
  • D Paradox
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Question 1528:
Read the extract below and answer questions9 to 11.
What happened to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?


does it stink like rotten meat? makes use of the sense of ____________
  • A Taste
  • B Touch
  • C Sight
  • D Smell
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Question 1529:
Read the extract below and answer questions9 to 11.
What happened to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?


The mood of the poem is one of ____________
  • A Joy
  • B Doubt
  • C Anger
  • D Certainty
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Question 1530:
a short play performed in the pause between the act of a longer play is ____________
  • A Denouement
  • B Interlude
  • C Prologue
  • D Epilogue
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