Waec Literature in English Past Questions and Answers

Question 66:

• WAEC 1998

Read the following poem carefully and answer the questions that follow:
I love you, my gentle one;
My love is the fresh milk in the rubindi
Which you drank on the wedding day;
My love is the butter we were smeared with
To seal fidelity into our hearts
You are the cattle-bird's egg.
For those who say you are wealthy;You are the papyrus read of the lake;Which they pull out with both hands.
And I sing for you with tears
Because you possess my heart.
I love you my gentle one.
The feeling of the poet is one of

A. Anxiety
B. Gaiety
C. Sadness
D. Frustration

Question 67:

• WAEC 1998

Read the following poem carefully and answer the questions that follow:
I love you, my gentle one;
My love is the fresh milk in the rubindi
Which you drank on the wedding day;
My love is the butter we were smeared with
To seal fidelity into our hearts
You are the cattle-bird's egg.
For those who say you are wealthy;You are the papyrus read of the lake;Which they pull out with both hands.
And I sing for you with tears
Because you possess my heart.
I love you my gentle one.
The underlined expression contains a

A. Simile
B. Metaphor
C. Personification
D. Litotes

Question 68:

• WAEC 1998

Read the following poem carefully and answer the questions that follow:
I love you, my gentle one;
My love is the fresh milk in the rubindi
Which you drank on the wedding day;
My love is the butter we were smeared with
To seal fidelity into our hearts
You are the cattle-bird's egg.
For those who say you are wealthy;You are the papyrus read of the lake;Which they pull out with both hands.
And I sing for you with tears
Because you possess my heart.
I love you my gentle one.
The poem is a blank verse because

A. There is no rhyme
B. There is rhyme
C. The rhyme is alternate
D. It contains couplets

Question 69:

• WAEC 1998

Read the following poem carefully and answer the questions that follow:
O stealing time, the subject of delay,
Delay the rack of unrefrained desire,
What strange design has thou my hopes to stay?
My hopes which do but to mine own aspire?
Old age is wise, and full of constant truth,
Old age well stayed from ranging humours lives,
Old age hath known, whatever was in youth,
Old age overcome the greater honour gives.
The rhyme scheme of the above extract is

A. Alternate
B. Irregular
C. Free verse
D. Couplet

Question 70:

• WAEC 1998

Read the following poem carefully and answer the questions that follow:
O stealing time, the subject of delay,
Delay the rack of unrefrained desire,
What strange design has thou my hopes to stay?
My hopes which do but to mine own aspire?
Old age is wise, and full of constant truth,
Old age well stayed from ranging humours lives,
Old age hath known, whatever was in youth,
Old age overcome the greater honour gives.
The literary device used in line 1 is an example of

A. Climax
B. Apostrophe
C. Metonymy
D. Euphemism