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THEORY QUESTIONS
WAEC SYLLABUS

WASSCE 2013

Objectives



1. _________ is fundamental to a play or novel.

A. Mime

B. Conflict

C. Flashback

D. Epilogue


2. A long and serious narrative about heroic characters is a/an

A. Burlesque

B. Ballad

C. Epic

D. Elegy


3. The device used in ‘light as wind on water laid’ is

A. Rhyme

B. Simile

C. Onomatopoeia

D. Pun


4. ‘The fire gnawed ceaselessly at the bark of the tree’.

A. Personification

B. Epithet

C. Allusion

D. Paradox


5. A hyperbole is also referred to as

A. Irony

B. Paradox

C. Exaggeration

D. Understatement


ANSWERS

This book should fill the memory, rule the heart and guide the feet.


6. The above expression illustrates the use of

A. Repetition

B. Refrain

C. Synecdoche

D. Metaphor


7. The author’s attitude towards the subject being treated is

A. Mood

B. Tone

C. Feeling

D. Atmosphere


8. One of the following makes use of gesture only:

A. Comedy

B. Lampoon

C. Mime

D. Satire


9. An omniscient in a novel

A. Detaches himself from the story

B. Knows nothing about the characters and events

C. Knows everything about the characters and events

D. Is a character in the story


10. In poetry ___________ is made up of stressed and unstressed syllables

A. An iambus

B. An anapest

C. Trochee

D. Dactyl


ANSWERS

11. Blank verse has no

A. Metre

B. Rhyme

C. Rhythm

D. Imagery


12. A very brief story is an

A. Allusion

B. Autobiography

C. Allegory

D. Anecdote


13. An epilogue

A. Introduces a play

B. Develops characters

C. Sums up a play

D. Introduces characters


14. “The king has joined his ancestors” is an example of

A. Euphemism

B. Eulogy

C. Malapropism

D. Trilogy


15. In the line ‘season of mist and mellow fruitfulness’, the main appeal is to the sense of

A. Touch

B. Hearing

C. Sight

D. Smell


ANSWERS

16. A question used for effect which does not require an answer is

A. Oratorical

B. Antithetical

C. Anticlimactic

D. Rhetorical


17. ‘The pen is mightier than the sword’ is an example of

A. Symbol

B. Metaphor

C. Catharsis

D. Conflict


18. In a play, unfolding events reach their peak in the

A. Climax

B. Denouncement

C. Catharsis

D. Conflict


19. “But at my back I always hear Time’s winged chariot hurrying near” illustrates

A. Metaphor

B. Apostrophe

C. Oxymoron

D. Metonymy


20. A short witty saying is a/an A. Epitaph B. Sonnet C. Limerick D. Epigram


ANSWERS

PART II

UNSEEN PROSE AND POETRY


Read the passage and answer questions 21—25


As they trooped off down the field with their sullen dogs, the farmer started the tractor up and the cutter blade blurred into life.


Left alone, Grooby sank into a shocked stupor. His mind whirled around like a fly that dared not alight. A blank vacancy held him. He seemed unable to move, even to wipe away the sweat that collected in his eyebrows and leaked down into his eyes. He sensed that the sun had settled over the earth, so that the air was actually burning gas. He watched the tractor dwindle in the bottom of the field, as if it were melting into a glittering muddle in the haze.


21. “… the cutter blade blurred into life”. The above expression appeals to the sense of

A. Hearing

B. Touch

C. Sight

D. Taste


22. “The air was actually burning gas” is a

A. Personification

B. Euphemism

C. Metaphor

D. Paradox


23. The diction coveys a feeling of

A. Hope

B. Helplessness

C. Anger

D. Indifference


24. The expression “like a fly that dared alight” is a/an

A. Simile

B. Hyperbole

C. Irony

D. Alliteration


25. The setting of the extract is

A. Dawn

B. Midday

C. Evening

D. Night


ANSWERS

Read the poem and answer questions 26—30


I’m going soldering

Mad the rhythm runs

With drumming and with trumpeting

And glory of the guns

I’ve come home again:

I know that blood is red

I know how sudden falls the rain

Where flesh lies dead


26. The theme of the poem is best described as the

A. Love of war

B. Glory of war

C. Excitement of war

D. Reality of war


27. “Mad the rhythm runs” is an example of

A. Pathos

B. Oxymoron

C. Bathos

D. Inversion


28. The dominant sound device in the second stanza is

A. Alliteration

B. Assonance

C. Onomatopoeia

D. Repetition


29. The rhyme scheme in the first stanza is

A. Aabb

B. Abab

C. Abaa

D. Aabc


30. The two contrasting moods in the poem are

A. Sadness and hope

B. Bravery and cowardice

C. Excitement and disappointment

D. Calmness and anxiety


ANSWERS

SECTION B

Answer all the questions in this section


WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE:

The Tempest


Read the extract and answer questions 31—35


Thou liest, most ignorant monster! I am in case to

Justle a constable. Why, thou deboshed fish, thou

Was there ever a man a coward that hath drunk so much

Sack as I today. Wilt thou tell a monstrous lie, being

But half a fish and half a monster?


(Act III, Scene Two, lines 23-27)


31. The speaker is

A. Stephano

B. Caliban

C. Trinculo

D. Adrian


32. The character addressed is

A. Trinculo

B. Stephano

C. Sebastian

D. Caliban


33. The ‘lie’ is that the speaker is a/an

A. Drunkard

B. Coward

C. Ass

D. Idiot


34. The addressee asks that the speaker be

A. Punished severely

B. Hanged on a tree

C. Beaten to death

D. Bitten to death


35. Later in the scene the addressee proposes a plot to

A. Make Trinculo king of the island

B. Kill Prospero

C. Steal Miranda

D. Rob Prospero of his clothes


ANSWERS

Read the extract and answer questions 36—40


You are the three men of sin, whom Destiny-

That hath to instrument this lower world

And what is in’t-the never-surfeited sea

Hath caused to belch up you and on this island

Where man doth not inhabit-you ‘mongst men

Being most unfit to live.


(Act III, Scene Three, lines 53-58)


36. The speaker is

A. Prospero

B. Miranda

C. Ariel

D. Gonzalo


37. The “three men of sin” are

A. Alonso, Gonzalo and Antonio

B. Alonso, Antonio and Sebastian

C. Antonio, Sebastian and Gonzalo

D. Sebastian, Gonzalo and Antonio


38. In the first line, ‘Destiny’ is

A. Metaphor

B. Personification

C. Allusion

D. Euphemism


39. The speaker immediately

A. Reports them to Prospero

B. Makes them repent

C. Drives them away

D. Makes them go mad temporarily


40. A character in the scene whom Prospero admires is

A. Ferdinand

B. Gonzalo

C. Adrian

D. Francisco


ANSWERS

Read the extract and answer questions 41—45


Look thou be true. Do not give dalliance

Too much the rein. The strongest oaths are straw

To the fire I’ the blood. Be more abstemious.

Or else, good night your vow!


(Act IV, Scene One, lines 51-54)


41. The speaker is

A. Alonso

B. Prospero

C. Gonzalo

D. Ferdinand


42. The character addressed is

A. Miranda

B. Antonio

C. Ferdinand

D. Sebastian


43. The literary device in lines 52 and 53 is

A. Personification

B. Simile

C. Metaphor

D. Synecdoche


44. Another character present in the scene is

A. Caliban

B. Trinculo

C. Stephano

D. Miranda


45. The “oath” referred to in the extract is that

A. Miranda shall not give in to Ferdinand

B. Ferdinand shall not have intimate contact with Miranda

C. Miranda shall vow to be faithful to Ferdinand

D. Ferdinand shall not tell his father about Miranda


ANSWERS

Read the extract and answer questions 46—50.


Oh, a Cherubin

Thou wast that did preserve me. Thou didst smile,

Infused with a fortitude from heaven,

When I have decked the sea with drops full salt,

Under burden groaned, which raised in me

An undergoing stomach, to bear up

Against what should ensue.


(Act I, Scene Two, lines 154-160)


46. The speaker is

A. Alonso

B. Gonzalo

C. Prospero

D. Sebastian


47. The character addressed is

A. Ferdinand

B. Ariel

C. Caliban

D. Miranda


48. The speaker sees the addressee as a/an

A. Lover

B. Savior

C. Burden

D. Antagonist


49. “When I have decked the sea with drops full salt” suggests

A. Dreaming

B. Swimming

C. Weeping

D. Sleeping


50. Soon after this dialogue appears

A. Ariel

B. Ferdinand

C. Gonzalo

D. Caliban



WASSCE 2013 LITERATURE IN ENGLISH OBJECTIVE TEST

ANSWERS

​1. B 2. C 3. B 4. A 5. C 6. C 7. A 8. C 9. B 10. A 11. A 12. B 13. C 14. A 15. B 16. D 17. C 18. A 19. A 20. D 21. A 22. B 23. D 24. C 25. C 26. B 27. B 28. B 29. B 30. B 31. C 32. D 33. A 34. D 35. B 36. C

37. B 38. B 39. A 40. B 41. B 42. C 43. C 44. D 45. A 46. C 47. D 48. B 49. C 50. A


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