Waec Literature in English Past Questions and Answers

Question 571:

• WAEC 2007

Read the passage and answer the question
world have been Heathcliff's miseries, and I watched and felt each from the beginning.My great thought in living is himself. If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be. And if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would be turned to a mighty stranger _ is should not seem a part of it. My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods; time will change it, I'm well aware, as winter changes the trees. My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath _ as source of little visible delight, but necessary. Nelly, I am Heathcliff!. He's always, always in my mind _ not as a pleasure to myself, but as my own being....
If all else perished and he remained illustrates

A. Paradox
B. Irony
C. Bathos
D. Antithesis

Question 572:

• WAEC 2007

Read the passage and answer the question
world have been Heathcliff's miseries, and I watched and felt each from the beginning.My great thought in living is himself. If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be. And if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would be turned to a mighty stranger _ is should not seem a part of it. My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods; time will change it, I'm well aware, as winter changes the trees. My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath _ as source of little visible delight, but necessary. Nelly, I am Heathcliff!. He's always, always in my mind _ not as a pleasure to myself, but as my own being....
The diction of the extract conveys the speaker's

A. Contempt
B. Despair
C. Assurance
D. Determination

Question 573:

• WAEC 2007

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: Hamlet
Read the extract below and answer the question
A : What, has this thing appeared again tonight?
B : I have seen nothing
(Act I, Scene one, lines 21-22)
Speaker A is

A. Bernado
B. Horatio
C. Francisco
D. Marcellus

Question 574:

• WAEC 2007

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: Hamlet
Read the extract below and answer the question
A : What, has this thing appeared again tonight?
B : I have seen nothing
(Act I, Scene one, lines 21-22)
The speaker is addressing

A. Marcellus
B. Francisco
C. The ghost
D. Horatio

Question 575:

• WAEC 2007

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: Hamlet
Read the extract below and answer the question
A : What, has this thing appeared again tonight?
B : I have seen nothing
(Act I, Scene one, lines 21-22)
Speaker B is

A. Hamlet
B. Francisco
C. Marcellus
D. Bernado