Year : 
2021
Title : 
Literature in English
Exam : 
WASSCE/WAEC MAY/JUNE

Paper 1 | Objectives

11 - 20 of 50 Questions

# Question Ans

Read the extract below and answer questions 9 to 11.

What happened to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?

11.

The mood of the poem is one of

A. joy

B. doubt

C. anger

D. certainty

B

12.

A short play performed in the pause between the act of a longer play is

A. denouement

B. interlude

C. prologue

D. epilogue

B

13.

The most intense part of a conflict is the

A. resolution

B. climax

C. denouement

D. deus ex machina

B

14.

I feel a million times better than I felt yesterday is

A. an apostrophe

B. a euphemism

C. an irony

D. a hyperbole

D

15.

Ldentify the odd item:

A. third-person narrative

B. literary appreciation

C. first-person narrative

D. epistolary technique

B

16.

A dramatist is someone who....plays

A. writes

B. dírects

C. commissions

D. promotes

A

17.

Nando's family lives within the lower income bracket illustrates

A. sarcasm

B. allusion

C. climax

D. euphemism

D

18.

A dramatic performance without words is

A. mime

B. an aside

C. a monologue

D. a soliloguy

A

19.

Utopia is a term used to describe

A. strange circumstances

B. difficult conditions

C. pleasant feelings

D. ideal societies

D

20.

The lawyer addressed the bench illustrates

A. simile

B. oxymoron

C. alliteration

D. metonymy

D

Read the extract below and answer questions 9 to 11.

What happened to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?

11.

The mood of the poem is one of

A. joy

B. doubt

C. anger

D. certainty

B

12.

A short play performed in the pause between the act of a longer play is

A. denouement

B. interlude

C. prologue

D. epilogue

B

13.

The most intense part of a conflict is the

A. resolution

B. climax

C. denouement

D. deus ex machina

B

14.

I feel a million times better than I felt yesterday is

A. an apostrophe

B. a euphemism

C. an irony

D. a hyperbole

D

15.

Ldentify the odd item:

A. third-person narrative

B. literary appreciation

C. first-person narrative

D. epistolary technique

B

16.

A dramatist is someone who....plays

A. writes

B. dírects

C. commissions

D. promotes

A

17.

Nando's family lives within the lower income bracket illustrates

A. sarcasm

B. allusion

C. climax

D. euphemism

D

18.

A dramatic performance without words is

A. mime

B. an aside

C. a monologue

D. a soliloguy

A

19.

Utopia is a term used to describe

A. strange circumstances

B. difficult conditions

C. pleasant feelings

D. ideal societies

D

20.

The lawyer addressed the bench illustrates

A. simile

B. oxymoron

C. alliteration

D. metonymy

D