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Literature In English Past Questions and Answers

Waec Literature In English Questions

Question 391:
''For my yoke is easy and my burden is light'' illustrates the use of
  • A Bathos
  • B Euphemism
  • C Paradox
  • D Irony
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Question 392:
The dominant literary device used in ''A drowsing numbness pains my sense'' is
  • A Parallelism
  • B Symbolism
  • C Repetition
  • D Diction
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Question 393:
Setting has to do with
  • A Time and place
  • B Incidents and events
  • C Tone and mood
  • D Rhythm and rhyme
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Question 394:
''And yonder all before us lie. Deserts of vast eternity'' illustrates the use of
  • A Allegory
  • B Personification
  • C Oxymoron
  • D Allusion
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Question 395:
UNSEEN PROSE AND POETRY
Read the passage below and answer the question
The fact was that, no sooner had the sickles began o play than, the
atmosphere suddenly felt as if cress would grow in it without other
nourishment. it rubbed people's cheeks like damp flannel when they
walked abroad: There was a gusty, high warm wind: isolated raindrops atarred the window-panes at remote distancees; the sunlight
would flap out like a quickly opened fan, throw the pattern of the window
upon the floor of the room in a milky, colourless shine, and withdraw as suddenly as it had passed.
The passage deals with
  • A Atmosphere
  • B Temperature
  • C Scene
  • D Clouds
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