Literature in English, 2020, WASSCE/WAEC MAY/JUNE, Exam, Paper 1 | Objectives

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Year :

2020

Title :

Literature in English

Exam :

WASSCE/WAEC MAY/JUNE

Paper 1 | Objectives

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#	Question	Ans
1.	A situation where an audience is aware of an action a character is ignorant of is ________ A. dramatic irony B. comic relief C. aside D. satire	A
2.	A fictional prose which is neither a novel nor a short story is a/an __________ A. allegory B. fable C. novella D. novelette	C
3.	Condensed use of language is a dominant feature of ___________ A. comedy B. poetry C. prose D. tragedy	B
4.	The sudden reversal of a character's fortune in a literary work is _________ A. denouement B. hamartia C. hubris D. peripeteia	D
	Read the extract below and answer Questions 5 to 7. With the pen, he wrote kings into reality With his words, kingdoms arose. Those same words, slaves inhaled Their hands building walls, their feet tromping territories His pen was like the breath of life.
5.	The underlined words illustrate ________ A. hyperbole B. irony C. metonymy D. paradox	A
6.	Hands and feet in line 4 illustrate _________ A. contrast B. litotes C. personification D. synecdoche	D
7.	His pen was like the breath of life exemplifies ________ A. bathos B. pathos C. satire D. simile	D
8.	Comic relief occurs in ________ A. comedies B. pastorals C. romance D. tragedies	D
9.	Students rarely read Julius Caesar these days illustrates ________ A. caesura B. eponym C. oxymoron D. zeugma Show Content Detailed Solution An eponym is a person, a place, or a thing after whom or which someone or something is, or is believed to be, named. i.e Julius Caesar	B
10.	In Literature, the term poetic justice applies to __________ A. a story that ends well B. characters that are spared death C. the development of a good plot D. the rewarding of good characters and the punishing of bad ones.	D

1.	A situation where an audience is aware of an action a character is ignorant of is ________ A. dramatic irony B. comic relief C. aside D. satire	A
2.	A fictional prose which is neither a novel nor a short story is a/an __________ A. allegory B. fable C. novella D. novelette	C
3.	Condensed use of language is a dominant feature of ___________ A. comedy B. poetry C. prose D. tragedy	B
4.	The sudden reversal of a character's fortune in a literary work is _________ A. denouement B. hamartia C. hubris D. peripeteia	D
	Read the extract below and answer Questions 5 to 7. With the pen, he wrote kings into reality With his words, kingdoms arose. Those same words, slaves inhaled Their hands building walls, their feet tromping territories His pen was like the breath of life.
5.	The underlined words illustrate ________ A. hyperbole B. irony C. metonymy D. paradox	A

6.	Hands and feet in line 4 illustrate _________ A. contrast B. litotes C. personification D. synecdoche	D
7.	His pen was like the breath of life exemplifies ________ A. bathos B. pathos C. satire D. simile	D
8.	Comic relief occurs in ________ A. comedies B. pastorals C. romance D. tragedies	D
9.	Students rarely read Julius Caesar these days illustrates ________ A. caesura B. eponym C. oxymoron D. zeugma Show Content Detailed Solution An eponym is a person, a place, or a thing after whom or which someone or something is, or is believed to be, named. i.e Julius Caesar	B
10.	In Literature, the term poetic justice applies to __________ A. a story that ends well B. characters that are spared death C. the development of a good plot D. the rewarding of good characters and the punishing of bad ones.	D