Waec Literature in English 2020 Past Questions and Answers

Question 36:

• WAEC 2020

Read the extract and answer Questions 36 to 40.
I will rather sue to be despised than to deceive so good a
commander with so slight, so drunken, and so indiscreet
an officer. Drunk! And speak parrot! And squabble!
swagger! Swear! And discourse fustian with one's own
shadow! a thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no
name to be known by, let us call thee devil!
(Act II, Scene Three, lines 262-267)
The speaker is addressing

A. Cassio
B. Iago
C. Othelo
D. Roderigo

Question 37:

• WAEC 2020

Read the extract and answer Questions 36 to 40.
I will rather sue to be despised than to deceive so good a
commander with so slight, so drunken, and so indiscreet
an officer. Drunk! And speak parrot! And squabble!
swagger! Swear! And discourse fustian with one's own
shadow! a thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no
name to be known by, let us call thee devil!
(Act II, Scene Three, lines 262-267)
The mood is that of

A. Deceit
B. Envy
C. Hatred
D. Regret

Question 38:

• WAEC 2020

Read the extract and answer Questions 36 to 40.
I will rather sue to be despised than to deceive so good a
commander with so slight, so drunken, and so indiscreet
an officer. Drunk! And speak parrot! And squabble!
swagger! Swear! And discourse fustian with one's own
shadow! a thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no
name to be known by, let us call thee devil!
(Act II, Scene Three, lines 262-267)
.... so good a commander refers to

A. Brabantio
B. Duke
C. Othelo
D. Roderigo

Question 39:

• WAEC 2020

Read the extract and answer Questions 36 to 40.
I will rather sue to be despised than to deceive so good a
commander with so slight, so drunken, and so indiscreet
an officer. Drunk! And speak parrot! And squabble!
swagger! Swear! And discourse fustian with one's own
shadow! a thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no
name to be known by, let us call thee devil!
(Act II, Scene Three, lines 262-267)
The underlined expression exemplifies __________

A. Antithesis
B. Apostrophe
C. Chiasmus
D. Euphemism

Question 40:

• WAEC 2020

Read the extract and answer Questions 41 to 45. 41.
This sight would make him do a desperate turn:
Yea, curse his better angel from his side,
Speaker Y: T is pitiful, but yet lago knows
A thousand times committed.
Cassio confessed it;
.. he ..., referred to by Speaker X, is __________

A. Brabantio
B. Gratiano
C. Montano
D. Lodovico