Waec 1998 Literature Past Questions And Answers
Read the extract below and answer the question.
That age is best which is the first
When youth and blood are warmer
But being spent, the worse, and worst
Times still succeed the former.
The rhyme scheme is known as
- A. abba
- B. abab
- C. aabb
- D. bbaa
Mime is the art of acting that involves the use of
- B. speeches only
- B. speeches only
- C. gestures only
- D. dances only
Read the extract below and answer the question.
That age is best which is the first
When youth and blood are warmer
But being spent, the worse, and worst
Times still succeed the former.
This kind of rhyme scheme is known as
- A. alternate
- B. irregular
- C. free verse
- D. couplet
A play is fully realized when it is
- A. studied
- B. memorized
- C. acted
- D. read
Read the extract below and answer this question.
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.
The image depicted in the extract is one of
- A. destruction
- B. merriment
- C. happiness
- D. amiration
A poem of 14 lines is known as a
- A. quatrain
- B. octave
- C. sestet
- D. sonnet
The three major forms of literature are
- A. tragedy,comedy, tragi-comedy
- B. poetry,drama,folktales
- C. drama,lyric,prose fiction
- D. poetry, drama,prose
Pick the odd item from the list
- A. prose
- B. poetry
- C. drama
- D. tragedy
Which of the following best describes Literature? It
- A. tells the story of great men and women
- B. is a reflection of man's life in society
- C. is a record of past events
- D. describes what never happened and cannot happen
A short witty statement is called an
- A. epigram
- B. anecdote
- C. epistle
- D. analogy