Waec Literature in English 2015 Past Questions and Answers

Question 11:

• WAEC 2015

Read the stanza and the question
Pan, O great Pan, to thee
Thus do we sing!
Thou who keep'st chaste and free
As the young spring:
Ever be thy honour spake
From that place the more is broke
To the place day doth unyoke
The stanza is an example of

A. Appellation
B. Apostrophe
C. Euphemism
D. Elegy

Question 12:

• WAEC 2015

Read the stanza and the question
Pan, O great Pan, to thee
Thus do we sing!
Thou who keep'st chaste and free
As the young spring:
Ever be thy honour spake
From that place the more is broke
To the place day doth unyoke
Pan is used here as

A. An allusion
B. Symbol
C. Irony
D. Metonymy

Question 13:

• WAEC 2015

Read the stanza and the question
Pan, O great Pan, to thee
Thus do we sing!
Thou who keep'st chaste and free
As the young spring:
Ever be thy honour spake
From that place the more is broke
To the place day doth unyoke
The rhyme scheme of the stanza is

A. Abcabcc
B. Ababcdd
C. Babacc
D. Bcbccaa

Question 14:

• WAEC 2015

A metrical foot in which a stressed syllable is followed by an unstressed syllable is

A. Iambic
B. Spondaic
C. Trochaic
D. Dactylic

Question 15:

• WAEC 2015

........... Is the location of the action of the plot

A. Setting
B. Narrative technique
C. Point of view
D. Characterization