Waec Literature In English Past Questions For Year 2020
Question 6
Comic relief occurs in ________
- A. comedies
- B. pastorals
- C. romance
- D. tragedies
Question 7
His pen was like the breath of life exemplifies ________
- A. bathos
- B. pathos
- C. satire
- D. simile
Question 8
hands and feet in line 4 illustrate _________
- A. contrast
- B. litotes
- C. personification
- D. synecdoche
Question 9
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.
The underlined words illustrate ________
- A. hyperbole
- B. irony
- C. metonymy
- D. paradox
Question 10
A short poem with a witty or sarcastic ending is a/an __________
- A. ballad
- B. allegory
- C. epigram
- D. panegyric
