Literature In English 2016 Waec Past Questions and Answers

Question 11 :

• WAEC 2016

Read the stanza and answer this question
For days I wept and felt depressed
The one and all I loved had left
But then on me our Bill impressed
'Your love is where she looks bereft'
The lines are iambic

A. Pentameter
B. Trimeter
C. Tetrameter
D. Hexameter

Question 12 :

• WAEC 2016

Read the stanza and answer this question
For days I wept and felt depressed
The one and all I loved had left
But then on me our Bill impressed
'Your love is where she looks bereft'
The lines constitute

A. An epic
B. A quatrain
C. An ode
D. A sestet

Question 13 :

• WAEC 2016

''The sun smiled gently on the scene'' illustrates

A. Paradox
B. Euphemism
C. Hyperbole
D. Personification

Question 14 :

• WAEC 2016

The major part of the Petrarch sonnet is the

A. Quintet
B. Sestet
C. Tercet
D. Octave

Question 15 :

• WAEC 2016

A Poem that celebrates an object, person or event is

A. A sonnet
B. A dirge
C. An ode
D. A balled