Waec Literature In English Past Questions
Question 61
Read the following poem carefully and answer the questions that follow:
I love you, my gentle one;
My love is the fresh milk in the rubindi
Which you drank on the wedding day;
My love is the butter we were smeared with
To seal fidelity into our hearts
You are the cattle-bird's egg.
For those who say you are wealthy;
You are the papyrus read of the lake;
Which they pull out with both hands.
And I sing for you with tears
Because you possess my heart.
I love you my gentle one.
The feeling of the poet is one of
- A. anxiety
- B. gaiety
- C. sadness
- D. frustration
Question 62
Read the following poem carefully and answer the questions that follow:
I love you, my gentle one;
My love is the fresh milk in the rubindi
Which you drank on the wedding day;
My love is the butter we were smeared with
To seal fidelity into our hearts
You are the cattle-bird's egg.
For those who say you are wealthy;
You are the papyrus read of the lake;
Which they pull out with both hands.
And I sing for you with tears
Because you possess my heart.
I love you my gentle one.
The predominant literary device used in the extract is
- A. hyperbole
- B. epigram
- C. oxymoron
- D. apostrophe
Question 63
Read the following poem carefully and answer the questions that follow:
I love you, my gentle one;
My love is the fresh milk in the rubindi
Which you drank on the wedding day;
My love is the butter we were smeared with
To seal fidelity into our hearts
You are the cattle-bird's egg.
For those who say you are wealthy;
You are the papyrus read of the lake;
Which they pull out with both hands.
And I sing for you with tears
Because you possess my heart.
I love you my gentle one.
The poem is an example of
- A. a lyric
- B. a dirge
- C. an ode
- D. an epic
Question 64
Read the following poem carefully and answer the questions that follow:
O stealing time, the subject of delay,
Delay the rack of unrefrained desire,
What strange design has thou my hopes to stay?
My hopes which do but to mine own aspire?
Old age is wise, and full of constant truth,
Old age well stayed from ranging humours lives,
Old age hath known, whatever was in youth,
Old age overcome the greater honour gives.
The predominant figure of speech in stanza ll is
- A. consonance
- B. alliteration
- C. personification
- D. epigram
Question 65
Read the following poem carefully and answer the questions that follow:
O stealing time, the subject of delay,
Delay the rack of unrefrained desire,
What strange design has thou my hopes to stay?
My hopes which do but to mine own aspire?
Old age is wise, and full of constant truth,
Old age well stayed from ranging humours lives,
Old age hath known, whatever was in youth,
Old age overcome the greater honour gives.
The literary device used in lines 3 and 4 of stanza 1 is
- A. paradox
- B. antithesis
- C. apostrophe
- D. rhetorical question
