2003 - WAEC Literature Past Questions and Answers - page 2

The term used for the unraveling of the complications of the plot at the end of a literary works is

Pick the odd item

The feelings and attitudes of a water are conveyed by

A author's story about himself is a/an

UNSEEN PROSE AND POETRY Read the extract below and answer the question His mind flitted back memory lane. He remembered how time walked quietly in. like a thief in the night and then put a sword in the heart of the land. He remembered all his life's sweat. drained away by the strife.He remembered his wife and two lovely kids, all slain pitilessly by the beasts in khaki. He remembered his only sister, a tender rose, defiled in turns by them and then slaughtered like a lamb upon the ritual table. The mood of the extract is one of

UNSEEN PROSE AND POETRY Read the extract below and answer the question His mind flitted back memory lane. He remembered how time walked quietly in. like a thief in the night and then put a sword in the heart of the land. He remembered all his life's sweat. drained away by the strife.He remembered his wife and two lovely kids, all slain pitilessly by the beasts in khaki. He remembered his only sister, a tender rose, defiled in turns by them and then slaughtered like a lamb upon the ritual table. The extract is about

UNSEEN PROSE AND POETRY Read the extract below and answer the question His mind flitted back memory lane. He remembered how time walked quietly in. like a thief in the night and then put a sword in the heart of the land. He remembered all his life's sweat. drained away by the strife.He remembered his wife and two lovely kids, all slain pitilessly by the beasts in khaki. He remembered his only sister, a tender rose, defiled in turns by them and then slaughtered like a lamb upon the ritual table. The dominant literary device used is

UNSEEN PROSE AND POETRY Read the extract below and answer the question His mind flitted back memory lane. He remembered how time walked quietly in. like a thief in the night and then put a sword in the heart of the land. He remembered all his life's sweat. drained away by the strife.He remembered his wife and two lovely kids, all slain pitilessly by the beasts in khaki. He remembered his only sister, a tender rose, defiled in turns by them and then slaughtered like a lamb upon the ritual table. ''....a tender rose'' is an example of a/an

UNSEEN PROSE AND POETRY Read the extract below and answer the question His mind flitted back memory lane. He remembered how time walked quietly in. like a thief in the night and then put a sword in the heart of the land. He remembered all his life's sweat. drained away by the strife.He remembered his wife and two lovely kids, all slain pitilessly by the beasts in khaki. He remembered his only sister, a tender rose, defiled in turns by them and then slaughtered like a lamb upon the ritual table. ''.....put a sword in the heart of the land'' implies

Read the poem and answer the question Move him into the sun Gently its touch awoke him once, At home, whispering of fields unsown Always it woke him even in France Until this morning and this snow If anything might rouse him now This kind old sun will know Think how it wakes the seeds Woke,once, the clays of a cold star Are limbs, so dear achieved, are sides, Full-nerved still warm too hard to stir? Was it for this the clay grew tall? O what made fatuous sunbeams toil To break earth's sleep at all? The poem is a/an