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THEORY QUESTIONS
WAEC SYLLABUS

WASSCE 2006

Objectives



1. “… the dragon-fly hangs like a blue thread loosed from the sky…” illustrates

A. Simile

B. Litotes

C. Contrast

D. Metaphor


2. A pause within a line of a poem is a

A. Zeugma

B. Foot

C. Caesura

D. Stress


3. Unrhymed iambic pentameter illustrate a

A. Rhyme scheme

B. Heroic couplet

C. Blank verse

D. Free verse


4. The limerick

A. Is written to be sung

B. Has a serious subject matter

C. Is always light and humorous

D. Uses lofty language


5. The elegy

A. Conforms to a fixed pattern of lines

B. Is set in the countryside

C. Has a mournful tone

D. Celebrates heroic deeds


ANSWERS

6. “But at my back I always hear Time’s winged chariot hurrying near” illustrates

A. Metaphor

B. Apostrophe

C. Oxymoron

D. Metonymy


7. A line of poetry is measured by the

A. Number of words

B. Number of feet it contains

C. Images

D. Rhythm


8. The recurrence of rhythmic pattern of stress in a poem is a

A. Couplet

B. Metre

C. Consonance

D. Scansion


9. A humorous imitation of a serious literary work is

A. An ode

B. A parody

C. An epitaph

D. A burlesque


10. A struggle between opposing forces in a literary work is the

A. Plot

B. Conflict

C. Climax

D. Denouement


ANSWERS

11. A metrical pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables illustrates the

A. Iambus

B. Anapest

C. Dactyl

D. Trochee


12. A poem with fourteen lines of rhymed iambic pentametre is

A. An epic

B. A sonnet

C. A quatrain

D. An octave


13. Pick the odd item from the options listed below

A. Euphemism

B. Oxymoron

C. Hyperbole

D. Rhythm


14. The specific literary term used to distinguish a novel from a play is

A. Genre

B. Verse

C. Diction

D. Style


15. A pair of rhymed iambic pentameter lines is a

A. Tercet

B. Heroic couplet

C. Sestet

D. Blank verse


ANSWERS

16. “Friendship is a sheltering tree” illustrates

A. Simile

B. Metaphor

C. Personification

D. Oxymoron


17. The dominant device used in drama is

A. stage direction

B. dialogue

C. characterization

D. soliloquy


18. “I don’t fancy forbidden fruits of fashion and fads” illustrates

A. refrain

B. repetition

C. assonance

D. alliteration


19. Pick out the odd item from the options listed below

A. romance

B. novel

C. short story

D. sonnet


20. “The strong gongs groaning as the guns boom far” illustrate

A. metonymy

B. refrain

C. onomatopoeia

D. repetition


ANSWERS

PART II

UNSEEN PROSE AND POETRY

Read the passage and answer questions 21—25.


Here in the station, it is in no way different save that the city is busy in its snow. But the old men cling to their seats as though they were symbolic and could not be given up. Now and then they sleep, their grey old heads resting with painful awkwardness on the backs of the benches.


Also, they are not at rest. For an hour, they may sleep in the gasping exhaustion of the ill-nourished and aged, who have to walk in the night. The, a policeman comes by on his round and nudges the upright, “You can’t sleep here”, he growls.


A strange ritual then begins. An old man is difficult to wake. One man after a slight lurch, does not move at all, he sleeps on steadily. Once in a while, one of the sleepers will not wake he will have had his wish to die in the great droning centre of the hive rather than in some lonely room fulfilled.


21. The style of writing is

A. Argumentative

B. Epistolary

C. Narrative

D. Expository


22. “…on the backs of the benches” illustrates

A. Synecdoche

B. Epithet

C. Assonance

D. Personification


23. The passage conveys a mood of

A. Defiance

B. Hope

C. Fear

D. Despair


24. “…gasping exhaustion of the ill-nourished and aged” infers

A. Helplessness

B. Slowness

C. Sadness

D. Tiredness


25. “droning” and “hive” illustrate

A. Anecdote

B. Epigram

C. Allusion

D. Epitaph


ANSWERS

Read the poem and answer questions 26-30.


Sleep, O sleep,

With thy Rod of Incantation,

Charm my imagination,

Then, only then, I cease to weep.


By thy power,

The virgin, by the Time O’ertaken,

For years forlorn, forsaken,

Enjoys the happy hour.


What’s to sleep?

‘Tis a visionary Blessing

A dream that’s past expressing

Our utmost wish possessing

So may I always keep.


26. The poem is

A. An epic

B. An ode

C. A lyric

D. A ballad


27. The dominant device used in the first line is

A. Oxymoron

B. Apostrophe

C. Rhyme

D. Metaphor


28. The poem makes use of

A. End-stopped lines

B. Run-on lines

C. Rhyme

D. Metaphor


29. “Sleep” in the poem is an example of

A. Alliteration

B. Assonance

C. Onomatopoeia

D. Pun


30. The power of “sleep’ is described as

A. Majestic

B. Magical

C. Poetic

D. Worshipful


ANSWERS

SECTION B

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: Hamet

Read the extract below and answer questions 31-35.


If thou hast any sound, or use of voice,

Speak to me:

If there be any good thing to be done,

That may to thee do ease and grace to me,

Speak to me:

If thou art privy to the country’s fate,

Which, happily foreknowing may avoid,

O, speak!

Or if thou hast uphoarded in thy life,

Extorted treasure in the womb of earth,

For which, they say, you spirits oft walk in death,

Speak of it:


(Act One, Scene 1, lines 128-139)


31. The speaker is

A. Hamlet

B. Marcellus

C. Horatio

D. Claudius


32. The character addressed is

A. The queen

B. The ghost

C. Bernado

D. Reynaldo


33. The speech was made after

A. The killing of Polonius

B. Hamlet’s arrival at the palace

C. The arrival of the players

D. The appearance of the ghost


34. The speaker’s mood is

A. Anger

B. Regret

C. Anxiety

D. Disappointment


35. During the speech

A. The palace soldiers arrived

B. Hamlet attacked the speaker

C. The queen fainted

D. A cock crowed


ANSWERS

Read the extract and answer questions 36-40.


X: Do you know me, my Lord?

Z: Excellent well you are a fishmonger,

Y: Not I, my Lord.

Z: Then I would you were so honest a man.

Y: Honest, my Lord!

Z: Ay, sir to be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.


(Act Two, Scene II, lines 173-179)


36. Speakers Y and Z are

A. Polonius and Hamlet

B. Claudius and Laertes

C. Laertes and Horatio

D. Marcellus and Reynaldo


37. Speaker Z’s responses suggest that he is

A. Planning revenge

B. Pretending to be mad

C. Telling a lie

D. Preparing to commit suicide


38. The two characters who just left this scene are

A. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern

B. Hamlet and the ghost

C. The king and the queen

D. Polonius and Ophelia


39. Speaker Z thinks Y is

A. Very honest

B. As dishonest as most people

C. More dishonest than anyone

D. More dishonest than ten thousand people


40. The underlined statement illustrates

A. Metaphor

B. Simile

C. Hyperbole

D. Irony


ANSWERS

Read the extract and answer questions 41-45.


And can you by no drift of circumstance,

Get from him why he puts on this confusion,

Girating so harshly all his days of quiet,

With turbulent and dangerous lunacy?


(Act three, Scene I, lines 1-4)


41. The speaker is

A. Gertrude

B. Ophelia

C. Claudius

D. Polonius


42. The person being discussed is

A. Voltimand

B. Hamlet

C. Ophelia

D. Rosencrantz


43. The characters being addressed are

A. Marcellus and horatio

B. Bernado and Francisco

C. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern

D. Marcellus and Francisco


44. The response given to this speech indicates that the attempt was

A. Unsuccessful

B. Successful

C. Progressing

D. Dangerous


45. The character being addressed is

A. Hamlet

B. Laertes

C. Ophelia

D. Horatio


ANSWERS

Read the extract and answer questions 46---50.


Why, now you speak

Like a good child and a true gentleman.

That I am guiltless of your father’s death,

And am most sensibly in grief for it,

It shall as level to your judgement pierce

As day does to your eye.


(Act four, Scene V, lines 128-133)


46. The speaker is

A. The king

B. The queen

C. The ghost

D. Polonius


47. The underlined statement illustrates

A. Irony

B. Metaphor

C. Paradox

D. Simile


48. The character who has just been murdered is

A. Hamlet

B. Gertrude

C. Polonius

D. Claudius


49. This speech can best be interpreted to mean

A. That the murder was an act of revenge

B. A denial of responsibility for the murder

C. That it is not easy to know who the murderer is

D. That the murderer is present on the scene


50. The setting is

A. The graveyard

B. A platform

C. A room in Polonius’ house

D. A room in the castle



WASSCE 2006 LITERATURE IN ENGLISH OBJECTIVE TEST

ANSWERS

​1. A 2. B 3. C 4. C 5. B 6. A 7. D 8. B 9. B 10. B 11. D 12. B 13. D 14. A 15. D 16. C 17. B 18. D 19. D 20. C 21. B 22. D 23. A 24. D 25. C 26. B 27. B 28. A 29. D 30. B 31. C 32. B 33. D 34. A 35. D 36. A 37. B 38. C 39. B 40. A 41. C 42. B 43. C 44. B 45. A 46. A 47. D 48. C 49. A 50. D


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