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Literature In English Past Questions and Answers

Waec Literature In English Questions

Question 371:
Read the extract below and answer the Question
.....Thus ornament is but the guilded shore
To a most dangerous sea...........The seeming truth which cunning times put on
To entrap the wisest. Therefore thou gaudy gold
Hard food for Midas. I will none of thee.....
(Act 111 sc 11)
The underlined expression is an example of
  • A Onomatopoeia
  • B Personification
  • C Hyperbole
  • D Metonymy
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Question 372:
Read the extract below and answer the Question
.....Thus ornament is but the guilded shore
To a most dangerous sea...........The seeming truth which cunning times put on
To entrap the wisest. Therefore thou gaudy gold
Hard food for Midas. I will none of thee.....
(Act 111 sc 11)
'' Midas'' in the extract illustrates a/an
  • A Anecdote
  • B Pun
  • C Allusion
  • D Allegory
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Question 373:
The persons created of presented in a literary work are
  • A Heroes
  • B Actorrs
  • C Clowns
  • D Characters
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Question 374:
The persons created of presented in a literary work are
  • A Heroes
  • B Actorrs
  • C Clowns
  • D Characters
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Question 375:
Pick the odd item
  • A Fiction
  • B Monologue
  • C Aside
  • D Soliloguy
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