Waec 2023 Literature Past Questions And Answers
UNSEEN PROSE AND POETRY
Read the passage below and answer the following questions:
Along marched the crowd, determined not to be distracted from its cause and the course it had charted. If anyone could intimidate the chief, it was Sasu, who led the crowd. The chief nurtured unruffled restraint. He knew Sasu, knew that Sasu would not waste the trust between them on renegades.
One way to divert a mob from its goal is to join in with it, lead it on, but, finally, veer it from the course of its cause. Onward, towards the chief's palace marched the crowd, singing war songs.
The sun frowned as the palace guards, rattling like leaves in a storm - fear branded on their faces, came out to survey the threatening crowd and prepare for a siege. Just then, Sasu turned about, heading away from the palace - with the crowd, and the war songs.
The attitude of the writer towards Sasu is one of- A. surprise
- B. anger
- C. approval
- D. disdain
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: A Midsummer Night's Dream
Use the following extract to answer the question that follows:
Lie bath rid his prologue like a rough colt: he knows not the stop.
A good moral, my lord: it is not enough to speak, but to speak true.
The character that delivers the prologue is- A. Snug
- B. Starveling
- C. Snout
- D. Quince
UNSEEN PROSE AND POETRY
Read the passage below and answer the following questions:
Along marched the crowd, determined not to be distracted from its cause and the course it had charted. If anyone could intimidate the chief, it was Sasu, who led the crowd. The chief nurtured unruffled restraint. He knew Sasu, knew that Sasu would not waste the trust between them on renegades.
One way to divert a mob from its goal is to join in with it, lead it on, but, finally, veer it from the course of its cause. Onward, towards the chief's palace marched the crowd, singing war songs.
The sun frowned as the palace guards, rattling like leaves in a storm - fear branded on their faces, came out to survey the threatening crowd and prepare for a siege. Just then, Sasu turned about, heading away from the palace - with the crowd, and the war songs.
rattling like leaves in a storm, fear branded on their faces illustrates- A. personification and simile
- B. personification and metaphor
- C. simile and metaphor
- D. assonance and simile
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: A Midsummer Night's Dream
Use the following extract to answer the question that follows:
Lie bath rid his prologue like a rough colt: he knows not the stop.
A good moral, my lord: it is not enough to speak, but to speak true.
The character that speaks before the speaker- A. Demetrius
- B. Theseus
- C. Pyramus
- D. Hippolyta
NON-AFRICAN PROSE: INVISIBLE MAN
Examine the ideology of the Brotherhood in the novel.
View Discussion (0)WAEC 2023 THEORYUNSEEN PROSE AND POETRY
Read the passage below and answer the following questions:
Along marched the crowd, determined not to be distracted from its cause and the course it had charted. If anyone could intimidate the chief, it was Sasu, who led the crowd. The chief nurtured unruffled restraint. He knew Sasu, knew that Sasu would not waste the trust between them on renegades.
One way to divert a mob from its goal is to join in with it, lead it on, but, finally, veer it from the course of its cause. Onward, towards the chief's palace marched the crowd, singing war songs.
The sun frowned as the palace guards, rattling like leaves in a storm - fear branded on their faces, came out to survey the threatening crowd and prepare for a siege. Just then, Sasu turned about, heading away from the palace - with the crowd, and the war songs.
The last paragraph illustrates- A. anti-climax
- B. rising action
- C. suspense
- D. foreshadow
A character that is built around a single idea or quality is a _______ character.
- A. heroic
- B. flat
- C. choral
- D. sound
AFRICAN PROSE: SECOND CLASS CITIZEN
Why does Mr Noble find it difficult to evict his tenants?
View Discussion (0)WAEC 2023 THEORYA dramatic performance with scenes played by body movements or gestures without words known as
- A. comedy
- B. pantomime
- C. panegyric
- D. melodrama
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: A Midsummer Night's Dream
Read the extract and answer the following question.
As wagish boys in a game themselves forswear;
So the boy Love is perjured everywhere;
For ere Demetrius looked on Hermia's eyne,
He hailed down oaths that he was only mine;
And when this hail some heat from Hermia felt,
So he dissolved and showers of oaths did melt
The speaker has just said farewell to- A. Helena
- B. Demetrius
- C. Hermia
- D. Lysander