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THEORY QUESTIONS

WAEC SYLLABUS

1. The main character in a play or novel is the

(a) protagonist

(b) narrator

(c) villain

(d)antagonist.

2. A dramatic performance with only bodily movements and no speech is a

(a) farce

(b) mime

(c) slapstick

(d) burlesque.

3. Before a play is performed, it is

(a) auditioned

(b) applauded

(c) rehearsed

(d) recited.

4. A play that moves the audience to pity and fear is a

(a) comedy

(b) farce

(c) pantomime

(d) tragedy.

5. A sonnet has a final couplet when it has

(a) a sestet

(b) an octave

(c) two sestets

(d) three quatrains.

ANSWERS

6. He is my most beloved enemy illustrates

(a) synecdoche

(b) oxymoron

(c) metonymy

(d) litotes.

7. The cast appears at the end of a play for the

(a) musical

(b) curtain call

(c) intermission

(d) introduction.

8. Diction is a writer's choice of

(a) style

(b) syntax

(c) rhythm

(d) words.

9. A poem which celebrates simple country life is

(a) a pastoral

(b) a dirge

(c) an ode

(d) an epic.

Read the lines and answer question 10.

Oh spite! Oh hell!

I see you are all bent

To set against me for your merriment.

10. The lines illustrate

(a) epitaph

(b) epigram

(c) apostrophe

(d) allusion.

ANSWERS

11. Hamartia, in a literary work refers to a hero's

(a) tragic flaw

(b) inordinate ambition

(c) strength of character

(d) good works.

Read the lines and answer question 12.

Who lied in the chapel

Now lies in the Abbey.

12. The dominant device used is

(a) paradox

(b) pun

(c) chiasmus

(d) zeugma.

13. A short play performed during the pause between the acts of a longer play is

(a) an interlude

(b) an epilogue

(c) a prologue

(d) an interval.

14. Weeping pillow illustrates

(a) dramatic monologue

(b) pathetic fallacy

(c) transferred epithet

(d) dramatic irony.

Read the lines and answer questions 15 to 17.

But the towering earth was tired of sitting in one position.

She moved suddenly and the houses crumbled, the mountains

heaved horribly, and the work of a million years was lost.

15. The predominant figure of speech in the extract is

(a) oxymoron

(b) personification

(c) contrast

(d) paradox.

ANSWERS

16. The extract is about

(a) an earthquake

(b) a flood

(c) an explosion

(d) a storm.

17. The effect of the extract is conveyed through the use of

(a) antithesis

(b) parallelism

(c) conceit

(d) climax.

18. Beware her faintly failing health. And gentle gallants around her speed illustrates

(a) oxymoron

(b) alliteration

(c) synecdoche

(d) repetition.

19. The eight-line part of a Petrarchan sonnet is the

(a) quatrain

(b) octave

(c) octameter

(d) quartet.

20. The metrical beat in The splendor falls on castle walls is

(a) anapaestic

(b) dactylic

(c) trochaic

(d) iambic.

ANSWERS

PART II

UNSEEN PROSE AND POETRY

Read the passage and answer questions 21 to 25.

Jame's heart beat madly as he and Alice approached the beeping metal detector at the entrance. The oblivious swinging door hugged the couple with inviting, outstretched arms and ushered them into the lobby in genial welcome. The receptionist asked James to surrender any valuable items he had If they got lost, management would not be liable.

James looked at Alice, his wife returned his guilt-stricken, dubious look with an innocent, trusting smile. What would he do if jewels went missing? How would he explain it to himself? What would he have gained by his mischief? What had come over James so shamelessly to decide to rob his own wife? The swindled woman stood innocently beside her unrepentant husband as he took the key to their room with hands that shook slightly.

21. The expression door hugged the couple illustrates

(a) euphemism

(b) personification

(c) litotes

(d) onomatopoeia.

22. The narrative technique is

(a) first person

(b) stream of consciousness

(c) third person

(d) interior monologue.

23. How would he explain it to himself? exemplifies

(a) hyperbole

(b) parallelism

(c) rhetorical question

(d) understatement.

24. The writer's attitude towards James is one of

(a) sympathy

(b) distrust

(c) support

(d) disapproval.

25. The setting is

(a) the couple's home

(b) a modern hotel

(c) the airport

(d) a school.

ANSWERS

Read the Poem and answer questions 26 to 30.

Poison ivy came up like a rose

in red and thorny garb

I look, liked and did dare touch.

My pals my avid touch espied

with green and frosty eyes

I should've only looked, and not leapt.

For away and over my rising moon she flew

on clipped wings of my dream

now a song-filled air pocket of serenades.

A love's wretch, my dream is a hornbill

flightless and tottering.

My dream remains a dream still

Now my dream is a locked-up serenade.

26. The mood of the persona is one of

(a) contempt

(b) hilarity

(c) despondency

(d) hopefulness.

27. The theme of the poem is

(a) love in the garden

(b) the acceptance

(c) the rising moon

(d) unrequited

28. I The envy of the persona s friends is expressed in the

(a) avid touch

(b) dipped wings

(c) green and frosty

(d) song-filled air pocket.

29. Line 2 is in iambic

(a) trimether

(b) tetrameter

(c) pentameter

(d) hexameter.

30. The last line illustrates

(a) parallelism

(b) contrast

(c) hyperbole

(d) metaphor.

ANSWERS

SECTION B

Answer all the questions in this section.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: Othello

Read the extract and answer questions 31 to 35.

Hello........ Not 1.1 must be found.

..................My parts, my title, and my perfect soul.

..................Shall manifest me rightly. Is it they?

Go: ...........By Janus, I think no.

..................The servants of the Duke? And my lieutenant?

..................The goodness of the night upon you, friends

..................What is the news? (Act I. Scene Two, lines 29 - 34)

31. Just before this, lago advises Othello to

(a) stay there

(b) go in

(c) show concern

(d) be fair

32. By Janus is

(a) flashback

(b) foregrounding

(c) an allusion

(d) euphemism.

33. The news Othello receives is that he must

(a) set sail for Cyprus

(b) reconcile the Brabantio

(c) prepare i military strategy

(d) appear before the council.

34. Duke is in council that night because of

(a) Brabantio's complaint

(b) lago's demotion

(c) the Turkish threat

(d) Cassio s dismissal as lieutenant.

35. Later on, Brabantio accuses Othello of

(a) being unfair lago

(b) instigating a brawl

(c) stealing his daughter

(d) being a knave.

ANSWERS

Read the extract and answer questions 36 to 40.

Weaker: Let me speak like yourself and

...............lay a sentence

...............Which, as a grise or step, may help these lovers.

..............When remedies are past, the grief’s are ended

..............By seeing the worst, which late on hopes depended.

.....................(Act I, Scene Three, lines 198 - 201)

36. The speaker is

(a) Brabantio

(b) Duke

(c) Montano

(d) Lodovico.

37. He is responding to

(a) Montano

(b) lago

(c) Roderigo

(d) Brabantio.

38. The setting is

(a) a council chamber

(b) Venice. A Street

(c) another street outside the Sagittary

(d) the citadel of Cyprus.

39. These lovers refers to

(a) Lago and Emilia

(b) Cassio and Bianca

(c) Roderigo and Desdemona

(d) Othello and Desdemona.

40. The expression lay a sentence means

(a) decide who is guilty

(b) offer criticism

(c) give advice

(d) speak politely.

ANSWERS

Read the extract and answer questions 41 to 45.

Othello: Why, how now, ho? From whence ariseth this?

Are we turned Turks, and to ourselves do that

Which heaven hath forbid the Ottomites?

For Christian shame put by this barbarous brawl!

He that stirs next to carve for his own rage

Holds his soul light he dies upon his motion.

Silence that dreadful bell. It frights the isle

From her propriety. What is the matter, masters?

Honest lago, that looks dead with grieving, Speak.

Who began this? On thy love, I charge thee,

Lago: I do not know. (Act II, Scene Three, lines 155-165)

41. Othello is brought to the scene because

(a) lago is drunk

(b) a bell has been rung

(c) people are fighting

(d) Cassio has stabbed Montano.

42. The underlined expression refers to the

(a) intervention of the storm in the war

(b) return of the victorious army to Cyprus

(c) killing of Roderigo by lago

(d) stabbing of Montano by Cassio.

43. In "Who began this" this refers to the

(a) theft

(b) war

(c) bell

(d) brawl.

44. To Othello, lago is

(a) sincere

(b) a negligent guard

(c) untrustworthy

(d) a loyal senator.

45. The major consequence of the brawl is that

(a) Montano is killed

(b) Roderigo demands his money back

(c) Cassio is dismissed as Othello's lieutenant

(d) Lago is given charge of the city.

ANSWERS

Read the extract and answer questions 46 to 50.

Speaker: I durst, my lord, to wager she is honest,

Lay down my soul at stake. If you think other,

Remove your thought. It doth abuse your bosom.

If any wretch have put this in your head,

Let heaven requite it with the serpent's curse,

For if she be not honest, chaste, and true,

There's no man happy. The purest of their wives

Is foul as slander.

(Act IV, Scene Two, lines 12-19)

46. The speaker is

(a) lago

(b) Desdemona

(c) Cassio

(d) Emilia.

47. The speaker is addressing

(a) Othello

(b) Montano

(c) Duke

(d) Roderigo.

48. The speech is in response to

(a) The allegation that the speaker has lied about Desdemona

(b) Lago's disdain for Othello

(c) Othello's suspicion that Cassio and Desdemona are lovers

(d) Brabantio's rejection of his daughter.

49. The line Remove your thought, it doth abuse your bosom is best paraphrased

(a) You are not wise.

(b) Do not kill yourself,

(c) You are ungrateful.

(d) You demean yourself by thinking so.

50. The character being spoken of is described as

(a) Unhappy

(b) virtuous

(c) generous

(d) wretched.

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