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Literature in English1999

WASSCE · 47 questions · Answers included

47 questions

1

A short speech at the end a play is the

2

An elegy is a poem

3

A couplet is formed by

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Literary works are classified into

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A word that sounds like what it names is a (n)

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The repetition of similar vowel sounds within lines is

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One of the following is a literary device

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The theme of a work of art is the

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The characters in a play constitute the

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A play that thrives on exaggeration of humour, plot and character is a

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The hero in a story is the

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A verbal irony occurs when a speaker on stage

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An 'Aside' occurs when a speaker on stage

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'The stars blinked and the wind wailed' is an example of

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A stanza of four lines is a (n)

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A sonnet is made up of a rhyming sestet and two

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The climax in a literary work is the

18

Which of the following is not a type of drama?

19

The main effect of comedy on an audience is

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The ending of most comedies is

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The subject of the poem is a

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Lines 1 and 2 of the second stanza illustrate the use of

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The creature in the poem is best described as

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The person's mood is one of

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The device used in ''Tis so strange'' is

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The mood of the people in the extract is that of

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The theme of the extract is the

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What does the expression ''Instrument of thy light and peace'' tell us about the speaker?

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The expression '' a glimmer of light'' stands for

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The figure of speech used in '' a heart of stone'' is

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This person has

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The ''Headstrong potent fault'' is

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The person being referred to in the figure of speech is

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What has the speaker just done?

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In lines 1 and 2, the speaker admits

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How does fate treat the speaker at the end of the play?

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Who is speaking?

38

The figure of speech used in the underlined expression is

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The effect of the figure of speech is to highlight Olivia's

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In lines 3 to 5 the dominant image is taken from

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The image is itself based on

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The lines mean that the speaker

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Who is speaking and to whom?

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Where are they?

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What has prompted the speech?

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The underlined expression is a

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In the last line, the word 'copy' alludes to a