Waec Literature in English 2020 Past Questions and Answers

Question 16:

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Read the extract and answer Questions 17 and 18.
I find no peace and all my war is done
I fear and hope. I bum and freeze like ice.
The dominant literary device used in the lines is ________

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

Question 17:

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The feeling of the narrator in the extract is to one of ________

A. Confusion
B. Fatigue
C. Love
D. Joy

Question 18:

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Which of the following is written by an African playwright?

A. She Stoops to Conquer
B. A Raisin in the Sun
C. Lonely Days
D. The Blood of a stranger

Question 19:

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Which of the following is written by a Non-African poet?

A. Piano and Drums
B. The Dining Table
C. The Schoolboy
D. The Panic of Growing Older

Question 20:

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Read the passage and answer Questions 2 1 to 25.
On, on, on, over the countless miles of angry space roll the long heaving OT angry space roll the long heaving billows. Mountains and caves are here; for what is now the other; then all is but a boiling heap of rushing water. Pursuit, and flight and mad return of and savage struggle, ending up in a spouting up of foam that whitens the black night; incessant change of place and form and hue; constancy in nothing but eternal strife.
On, on, on, they roll and darker grows the night: and louder howls the wind and more clamorous and fierce become the million voices in the sea, when the wild cry goes forth upon the storm, "A ship!"
The most suitable title for the passage is ________

A. A Savage Struggle at Night
B. At Sea on a Stormy Night.
C. The Long Heaving Waves
D. The Million Voices in the Sea