1991 - WAEC Literature Past Questions and Answers - page 4
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Read the extract below and answer the question.
That age is best which is the first
When youth and blood are warmer
But being spent, the worse, and worst
Times still succeed the former.
The rhyme scheme is known as
That age is best which is the first
When youth and blood are warmer
But being spent, the worse, and worst
Times still succeed the former.
The rhyme scheme is known as
A
abba
B
abab
C
aabb
D
bbaa
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Read the extract below and answer the question.
That age is best which is the first
When youth and blood are warmer
But being spent, the worse, and worst
Times still succeed the former.
This kind of rhyme scheme is known as
That age is best which is the first
When youth and blood are warmer
But being spent, the worse, and worst
Times still succeed the former.
This kind of rhyme scheme is known as
A
alternate
B
irregular
C
free verse
D
couplet
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A poem of 14 lines is known as a
A
quatrain
B
octave
C
sestet
D
sonnet
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» Read the extract below and answer the question.
That age is best which is the first
When youth and blood are warmer
But being spent, the worse, and worst
Times still succeed the former.
A poem of four lines is known as a
That age is best which is the first
When youth and blood are warmer
But being spent, the worse, and worst
Times still succeed the former.
A poem of four lines is known as a
A
sonnet
B
couplet
C
sestet
D
quatrain
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Pick the odd item from the list
A
prose
B
poetry
C
drama
D
tragedy
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A play on words is
A
innuendo
B
humour
C
pun
D
jest
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A play is fully realized when it is
A
studied
B
memorized
C
acted
D
read
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An epitaph is
A
poem of lamentation
B
a poem of fourteen lines
C
an inscription on a tomb
D
the life history of an author
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The essential function of a tragedy is to make people
A
laught at mankind
B
think and feel more deeply
C
think and laugh
D
know their enemies
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Mime is the art of acting that involves the use of
A
songs only
B
speeches only
C
gestures only
D
dances only
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