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THEORY QUESTIONS
WAEC SYLLABUS

WASSCE 2019

Objectives



1. A literature work which is intended to teach a moral lesson is

A. Romantic

B. Didactic

C. Mimetic

D. Moralistic


2. A short account of an interesting event is

A. A tale

B. AN Anecdote

C. An Episode

D. A story


3. He is a citizen of no mean city illustrate

A. Bathos

B. Euphemism

C. Metonymy

D. Litotes


4. The introductory part of a play, a novel or a poem is the?

A. Epilogue

B. Plot

C. Setting

D. Prologue


5. An elegy is a poem of

A. Mourning

B. Complaint

C. Hope

D. Joy


ANSWERS

6. The trees bowed their heads in shame illustrates?

A. Personification

B. Alliteration

C. Assonance

D. Paradox


7. A character whose actions are predicable in a literary work is?

A. A round character

B. A flat character

C. The hero

D. The Villain


8. A scene in fiction enacting past events is.

A. Allusion

B. Foreshadow

C. Flashback

D. Interlude


9. Poetic license is a term applied to a post’s

A. Choice of words

B. Choice of characters

C. Restrictions in the use of language

D. Freedom in the use of language


Milton! Thou should be living in this hour


10. The Literary device used in the line above is

A. Aside

B. Apostrophe

C. Soliloquy

D. Suspense


ANSWERS

Here lie I, Martin Eliginbrodde

Have mercy on my soul, lord god


11. The Extract above illustrate

A. Epitaph

B. Elegy

C. Balled

D. Dirge


12. We live to die, we die to live is an example of?

A. Paradox

B. Hyperbolic

C. Inversion

D. Oxymoron


Read the poem and answer question 13 to 15


Here she lays, a pretty bud

Latterly made of flesh and blood

Who as soon fell asleep as her strewing, but not stir

The earth that lightly covers her


13. The poem is about an/a

A. Flower

B. Old woman

C. Little child

D. Traveler


14. The person’s mood is one of

A. Anger

B. Admiration

C. Indifference

D. Joy


15. The rhyme pattern is

A. abc abc

B. aa ab cc

C. ab ab cc

D. aa bc bc


ANSWERS

16. A play in which characters act through gestures and facial expression is a?

A. Pantomime

B. Burlesque

C. Fares

D. Melodrama


17. Characterization refers to

A. How Characters are grouped

B. The reader’s opinion of the characters

C. How characters are depicted

D. The roles played by the character


18. In a literary work, the foil is one who?

A. Complements another character

B. Contrasts with another character

C. Introduce the conflict

D. Resolves the conflict


19. Dramatis personae refers to

A. Audience

B. Characters

C. Chorus

D. Cast


20. A Literary device used to enhance sound affect in poetry is.

A. Imagery

B. Alliteration

C. Refrain

D. Symbol


ANSWERS

PART II

UNSEEN PROSE AND POETRY


Read the passage and answer question 21 – 25


Mark lies sleepless, his supine eyes rolling as he counts the rafter – vertically, horizontally, diagonally–over and over. There is continual rumbling in his belly. Lying so still, who can be blame now? Isn’t it his own fault to be like this? Three months ago, Atongo and Agbenya said they were leaving town because ‘’things have become too hard.’’ as they put it. They asked Mark to come along. He decline saying he would have to prepare. Of course, he simply could not go- dare mot. He had a pact with Akwele who sells kenkey downtown: neither could leave without the other. At the time Mark’s friends were ready Akwele had travelled to Accra and would, unknown to anyone, not return in a hurry. This is why Mark is lying dejected in his bed, a hungry man anyway, he is an angry man.


21. …...supine eyes … illustrate

A. Oxymoron

B. Paradox

C. Verbal irony

D. Synecdoche


22. Rumbling as used in the 1st paragraph is

A. Onomatopoeic

B. Metaphoric

C. Ironic

D. Alliterative


23. The dominant theme is

A. Unrequited love

B. Loss of opportunity

C. Lack of trust

D. Insatiable hunger


24. The narrative technique is

A. Third person

B. First person

C. Interior-monologue

D. Multiple narrations


25. The Writer’s attitude is one of

A. Anger

B. Indifference

C. Sympathy

D. Mockery


ANSWERS

Read the Poem and answer questions 26 to 30


Walker, stop and let me move and check you

My sneaky, fleeting moon of reckless birth

The light of hope you flashed had dimmed

The flickers weakly, so you squint at Earth


Walker, stand let me sit and quiz you

Will foes and friends be irked if Mum you tell

The bitter tale of woe behind your flu?

The tricking tears unseen announce your age.


Walker, stay and let me come and tell you

My fleeting moon, I own you dim my light

Your sparkling blouse has turned a darker hue

You must, I guess, have done a steeplechase.


26. The stanzas are written in

A. Quintets

B. Quatrains

C. Sestets

D. Tercets


27. The recurrent device used is

A. Synecdoche

B. Apostrophe

C. Metonymy

D. Paradox


28. The moon of the port is

A. Derisive

B. Ecstatic

C. Regretful

D. Melancholic


29. The opening lines of the stanzas are

A. Trochaic

B. Iambic

C. Anapestic

D. Dactylic


30. The first stanza rhymes

A. ab ac

B. ab ab

C. abcb

D. abba


ANSWERS

SECTION B

Answer the entire question in this section


WILLIAM SHAKESPEAR: Othello

Read the extract and answer question 31 to 35.

When remedies are past, griefs are ended

By seeing the worst, which late on hopes depended

To mourn a mischief that is past and gone

Is the next way to draw new mischief on?

What cannot be preserved when fortune takes?

Patience her injury makes

The robbed that smiles, steels something from the thief

He robs himself that spends a bootless grief.

(Act1, scene Three, line 200 - 207)


31. The speaker is

A. Gratiano

B. Duke

C. Lodovico

D. Montano


32. The speech is directly addressed to

A. Cassio

B. Brabantio

C. Othello

D. 2nd Senator


33. The speech is about

A. Brabanto’s complaint about Othello

B. Pthello’s loss of his handkerchief

C. Brabantio’s loss of his daughter

D. The fight between Cassio and Roderigo


34. By speech, the speaker attempt to?

A. Instigate the addresses

B. Console the addresses

C. Prevent a war

D. Settle a fight


35. The underlined expression means

A. One is bound to loss something in life,

B. Keep smiling even while being robbed

C. It is useful not to bemoan one’s loss

D. The thief loses either way


ANSWERS

Read the extract and answer questions 36 to 40


Thos art sure of me, go make money, I have told thee

Often, and I retell thee again and again, I hate the Moor

My cause is hearted: thine has no less reason.

Let us be conjunctive in our revenge against him, I if thou canst

Cuckold him, thou dost thyself a pleasure. Me a sport.

There are many events in the womb if time, which will be delivered.

Traverse, go, and provide the money! We will have more of this

tomorrow. Adieu (Act1, Scene Three, lines 355 - 362)


36. The speaker and the addressee are

A. Lodovico and Rodeigo

B. Clown and Lodovico

C. Lago and Roderigo

D. Lago and Clown


37. What binds the speaker and addressee together is their

A. Hatred for Othello

B. Fear of Cassio

C. Fear of Duke

D. Hatred Brabantio


38. The addressee is enjoined to GO, make money for

A. Wooing Desdemona

B. Enriching Lago

C. Placating Brabantio

D. Rewarding Bianca


39. The underlined expression means?

A. You have your way by making him angry

B. You gain by making his wife cheat on him

C. You will not be delighted at the result

D. You will have succeeded in deducing her


40. The speaker’s attitude to the addressee is one of

A. Spite

B. Envy

C. Friendliness

D. Intolerance


ANSWERS

Read the extract and answer question 41 to 45


I have done the state some service, and they known’s

No more of that, I pray you, in your letters

When you shell these unlucky deeds relate

Speak of me as I am, nothing extenuate,

Not set down aught in malice. Then must you speak

Of one that loved not wisely, but too well.

(Act1, Scene Three, lines 336 - 341)


41. The speaker is?

A. Othello

B. Gratinao

C. Lago

D. Cassio


42. The setting is?

A. A Street in front of the citadel

B. A Street

C. The citadel

D. Desdemona’s chamber


43. The speaker is addressing?

A. Duke

B. Emilia

C. The Senator

D. Lodovico and other


44. The speech is intended to?

A. Preserve the speaker’s reputation

B. Express the speaker\s remorse

C. Express the speaker’s acceptance of guilt

D. Express the speaker’s enemies


45. Among these unlucky deeds, the immediate one is?

A. The killing of Desdemona

B. Declaring Desdemona as unfaithful

C. Refusing to listen to Emilia

D. The sacking of Cassio


ANSWERS

Read the extract and answer question 46 to 50


If after every tempest come such calms

May the wind blow till they have weakened death,

And let the laboring bark climb hills of seas

Olympus-high, and duck again as low

As hell’s from heaven. If it were now to die

‘T were not to be most happy: for I fear

My soul hath her content so absolute

That not another comfort like to this

Succeeds in unknown fate.


46. The speaker is

A. Brabantio

B. Othello

C. Duke

D. Montano


47. The occasion is

A. Othello’s return from war

B. Othello’s departure for Cyprus

C. Montano expressing his delight after the tempest

D. The defeat of the Turks


48. The dominant images are associated with

A. Love

B. Nature

C. Sailing

D. War


49. The sense reveals the speaker’s

A. Fear of adventure

B. Affection for his wife

C. Suspicion

D. Fulfillment as a warrior


50. The language of the extract is best described as

A. Ironical

B. Humorous

C. Hyperbolical

D. Sarcastic



WASSCE 2019 LITERATURE IN ENGLISH OBJECTIVE TEST

ANSWERS

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


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