Waec Literature In English Past Questions

Question 76

Read the extract below and answer the question:

A : Let all the rest give place

(Exeunt Curio and attendants),

Once more, Cesario,

Get thee to yond same sovereign cruelty;

Tell her, my love, more noble than the world,

Prizes, not quantity of dirty land,

The parts that forune hath bestowed upon her,

Tell her, I hold as giddily as fortune,

But 'tis that miracles and queen of gems

that nature pranks her in, attracts my soul.

(Act ll Scene IV)

Speaker A's object of love is

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  • A. Maria
  • B. Olivia
  • C. Viola
  • D. Feste
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Question 77

Read the extract below and answer the question:

A : Let all the rest give place

(Exeunt Curio and attendants),

Once more, Cesario,

Get thee to yond same sovereign cruelty;

Tell her, my love, more noble than the world,

Prizes, not quantity of dirty land,

The parts that forune hath bestowed upon her,

Tell her, I hold as giddily as fortune,

But 'tis that miracles and queen of gems

that nature pranks her in, attracts my soul.

(Act ll Scene IV)

Speaker A is

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  • A. Sebastian
  • B. Fabian
  • C. Duke
  • D. Sir Andrew
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Question 78

Read the extract below and answer the question:

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: Twelfth Night

A : What country, friends, is this?

B : This is lllyria, Lady,

A : And what should I do in lllyria?

My brother he is in Elysium.

Perchance he is not drowned - What think you, sailors?

B : It is perchance that you yourself where saved

A : O my poor brother. and so perchance may he be

(Act 1 Scene II)

The figure of speech underlined in the extract is known as

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  • A. apostrophe
  • B. alliteration
  • C. assonance
  • D. personification
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Question 79

Read the extract below and answer questions:

A : Would you'd pardon me

I do not without danger walk these streets;

Once, in a sea-fight against the Count his galleys,

I did some service-of such note, indeed.

That were I ta'en here

It would scarce be answered

B : Be like you slew great number of his people

A : The offence is not of such a bloody nature,

Albeit the quality of the time and quarrel

Might well have given us bloody argument

(Act III Scene III)

They mood of Speaker A, is that of

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  • A. gaiety
  • B. courage
  • C. melancholy
  • D. fear
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Question 80

Read the extract below and answer questions:

A : Would you'd pardon me

I do not without danger walk these streets;

Once, in a sea-fight against the Count his galleys,

I did some service-of such note, indeed.

That were I ta'en here

It would scarce be answered

B : Be like you slew great number of his people

A : The offence is not of such a bloody nature,

Albeit the quality of the time and quarrel

Might well have given us bloody argument

(Act III Scene III)

The Count referred to in the extract is

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  • A. Orsino
  • B. Sir Andrew
  • C. Toby
  • D. Malvolio
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