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Literature In English Past Questions and Answers

Waec Literature In English Questions

Question 471:
Read the extract below and answer the question
When it is paid, according to the tenor.
It doth appear you are a worthy judge,
You know the law, your exposition
Hath been most sound. I charge you by the law;....
Proceed to judgement;.....
(Act IV Scene On, lines 231 - 236)
''Your exposition'' refers to
  • A Legal knowledge
  • B Plea for mercy
  • C Exercise of justice
  • D Enactment of the law
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Question 472:
''....the dragon-fly
hangs like a blue thread
losened from the sky...'' illustrates
  • A Simile
  • B Litotes
  • C Contrast
  • D Metaphor
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Question 473:
''....the dragon-fly
hangs like a blue thread
losened from the sky...'' illustrates
  • A Simile
  • B Litotes
  • C Contrast
  • D Metaphor
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Question 474:
A pause within a line of a poem is a
  • A Zeugma
  • B Foot
  • C Caesura
  • D Stress
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Question 475:
Unrhymed iambic pentametre lines illustrate a
  • A Rhyme scheme
  • B Heroic couplet
  • C Blank verse
  • D Free verse
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