Waec Literature in English 2021 Past Questions and Answers

Question 11:

• WAEC 2021

Read the extract below and answer questions9 to 11.
What happened to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?


The mood of the poem is one of ____________

A. Joy
B. Doubt
C. Anger
D. Certainty

Question 12:

• WAEC 2021

a short play performed in the pause between the act of a longer play is ____________

A. Denouement
B. Interlude
C. Prologue
D. Epilogue

Question 13:

• WAEC 2021

The most intense part of a conflict is the ____________

A. Resolution
B. Climax
C. Denouement
D. Deus ex machina

Question 14:

• WAEC 2021

I feel a million times better than I felt yesterday is ____________

A. An apostrophe
B. A euphemism
C. An irony
D. A hyperbole

Question 15:

• WAEC 2021

ldentify the odd item:

A. Third-person narrative
B. Literary appreciation
C. First-person narrative
D. Epistolary technique