Read the extract below and answer the following questions ... Man is but an ass

LITERATURE
WAEC 2022

Read the extract below and answer the following questions

... Man is but an ass if he go about to

expound this dream. Methought I was - there

is no man can tell

what. Methought I was, and methought I had -

but man is

But a patched fool, if he will offer

To say what methought I

had. The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of

man hath not

seen, man's hand is not able to taste, his

tongue to conceive, nor

his heart to report, what my dream was

(Act IV, Scene One, Lines 201 - 207)


It is a state of

  • A. deception
  • B. ignorance
  • C. illusion
  • D. innocence

Correct Answer: C. illusion

Explanation

His overabundant self-confidence burbles out in his grandiose idea that although no one could possibly understand his dream, it is worthy of being immortalized in a poem. This shows his illusion of the experience being a dream



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