Waec Literature in English Past Questions and Answers

Question 1481:

• WAEC 2020

The writer's attitude to the scene is one of _________

A. Anxiety
B. Awe
C. Contempt
D. Indiference

Question 1482:

• WAEC 2020

The expression million voices is used as _________

A. Conceit
B. Euphemism
C. Hyperbole
D. Metonymy

Question 1483:

• WAEC 2020

A ship in the last line symbolises _________

A. Despair.
B. Hope
C. Pirates
D. Sailors

Question 1484:

• WAEC 2020

Read the poem and answer Questions 26 to 30.
Oft in the stilly night
Ere slumber's chain has bound me
Fond memory brings the light
of other days around me:
The smiles, the tears
of boyhood years.
The words of love then spoken;
The eyes that shone
How dimm'd and.gone
The cheerful hearts now broken!
Thus in the stilly night
Ere slumber's chain has bound me.
The theme is about the poet's _________

A. Broken love affairs.
B. Fee the stilly night.
C. Sleepless night.
D. Yearning for happier times
gone

Question 1485:

• WAEC 2020

Read the poem and answer Questions 26 to 30.
Oft in the stilly night
Ere slumber's chain has bound me
Fond memory brings the light
of other days around me:
The smiles, the tears
of boyhood years.
The words of love then spoken;
The eyes that shone
How dimm'd and.gone
The cheerful hearts now broken!
Thus in the stilly night
Ere slumber's chain has bound me.
The theme of the poem is presented essentially through ________

A. Assonance
B. Contrast.
C. Paradox
D. Repetition