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1. WAEC 2024Ife is a woman of great virtue She is a woman of great vice illustrate
2. WAEC 2024The figure of speech used in she was listening to the silence of the room is
3. WAEC 2024The overwhelming confidence and pride that lead to the fall of the protagonist is
4. WAEC 2024Which of the following helps best to create and sustain interest in a literary work?
5. WAEC 2024The major divisions in a play are
6. WAEC 2024One of the important means available to a writer of a literary work is
7. WAEC 2024A narrative that extols the deeds of a heroic figure is a
8. WAEC 2024The dominant device used in Macbeth doth murdered sleep; the innocent sleep is
9. WAEC 2024The device used in She gave him lots of cash and tender attention is
10. WAEC 2024The choir is on wheels to a convention illustrates
11. WAEC 2024Characters in a play that the author uses as a vehicle for commentary is
12. WAEC 2024The Shakespearean sonnet differs from the Petrachan sonnet by ending with a
13. WAEC 2024A narrative composed in the form of a letter is
14. WAEC 2024A poem that is shaped in the image of the object it talks about is
15. WAEC 2023rattling like leaves in a storm, fear branded on their faces illustrates
16. WAEC 2023A dead metaphor is
17. WAEC 2023A dramatic performance with scenes played by body movements or gestures without words known as
18. WAEC 2023A short poem lamenting the death of someone is
19. WAEC 2023Now much beshrew my manners and my pride, illustrates the use of
20. WAEC 2023A fable is also known as
21. WAEC 2023it is not enough to speak, but to speak true illustrates
22. WAEC 2023That girl is too young to be put in the family way illustrates
23. WAEC 2023Exaggerating one's personal features for comic effect is
24. WAEC 2023Resolution in a literary work is also referred to as
25. WAEC 2023The moon looked on the massacre in horror ! illustrates
26. WAEC 2023Letters, journals and diaries are examples of
27. WAEC 2023A character that is built around a single idea or quality is a … character.
28. WAEC 2023Come, thou gentle day illustrates
29. WAEC 2023At the last head count, the population of the school was three thousand is an example of
30. WAEC 2023Bassy is a … in the play.
31. WAEC 2023The third stanza of the Shakespearean sonnet is
32. WAEC 2023Seven metrical feet in a line of a stanza is
33. WAEC 2022A novel that features spiritual apparitions as major character is
34. WAEC 2022More haste, less speed illustrates the use of
35. WAEC 2022Did your read our minds in your lies? exemplifies
36. WAEC 2022In literature, the two components of diction are
37. WAEC 2022A word or a phrase that is repeated at regular intervals in a poem or a play is a
38. WAEC 2022Disguise in drama mostly portrays the theme of
39. WAEC 2022Several hands stretched out for free meals at the refugee camp illustrates
40. WAEC 2022A story with elements that have both literal and figurative meanings is
41. WAEC 2022An aside in drama is used mostly to create a sense of
42. WAEC 2022In drama, catharsis is the
43. WAEC 2022A novel that recounts the adventures of a likeable rogue is
44. WAEC 2022At the fall of their house, the widow lost her husband, her sewing machine and her ear-rings illustrates
45. WAEC 2022The literary term describing individuals in a work of literature is
46. WAEC 2022But they have soothed us calmly, your lies illustrate
47. WAEC 2021Utopia is a term used to describe
48. WAEC 2021A recurring idea, image, or a group of images that unifies a work of literature is
49. WAEC 2021Something a character says on stage that is meant for the audience alone is
50. WAEC 2021An inscription on a tombstone is an

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