Waec Literature in English 2020 Past Questions and Answers

Question 21:

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The predominant use of long vowels in the first sentence heightens the ______ of the waves

A. Anger
B. Expanse
C. Great noise
D. Endless movement

Question 22:

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The writer's attitude to the scene is one of _________

A. Anxiety
B. Awe
C. Contempt
D. Indiference

Question 23:

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The expression million voices is used as _________

A. Conceit
B. Euphemism
C. Hyperbole
D. Metonymy

Question 24:

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A ship in the last line symbolises _________

A. Despair.
B. Hope
C. Pirates
D. Sailors

Question 25:

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Read the poem and answer Questions 26 to 30.
Oft in the stilly night
Ere slumber's chain has bound me
Fond memory brings the light
of other days around me:
The smiles, the tears
of boyhood years.
The words of love then spoken;
The eyes that shone
How dimm'd and.gone
The cheerful hearts now broken!
Thus in the stilly night
Ere slumber's chain has bound me.
The theme is about the poet's _________

A. Broken love affairs.
B. Fee the stilly night.
C. Sleepless night.
D. Yearning for happier times
gone