Waec Literature in English Past Questions and Answers

Question 1376:

• WAEC 2018

SECTION F: NON-AFRICAN PROSE
THE CASTLE OF OTRANTO - HOLACE WALPOLE

Comment on the significance of Conrad's death in the novel?

Question 1377:

• WAEC 2019

The mood of the poet is ________

A. Derisive
B. Ecstatic
C. Regretful
D. Melancholic

Question 1378:

• WAEC 2019

The opening lines of the stanzas are ________

A. Trochaic
B. Iambic
C. Anapaestic
D. Dactylic

Question 1379:

• WAEC 2019

The first stanza rhymes ______

A. Ab ac
B. Ab ab
C. Abcb
D. Abba

Question 1380:

• WAEC 2019

Read the extract and answer questions 31 to 35
When remedies are past, griefs are ended
By seeing the worst, which late on hopes depended.
To mourn a mischief that is past and gone
Is the next way to draw new mischief on.
What cannot be preserved when fortune takes,
Patience her injury a mock'ry makes.
The robbed that smiles. steals something from the thief',
He robs himself that spends a bootless grief.
(Act I, Scene Three, lines 200 - 207) 31.
The speaker is ___________

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