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2020 WAEC LITERATURE IN ENGLISH

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Question 1 of 50
1. Question
A situation where an audience is aware of an action a character is ignorant of is
dramatic irony.
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comic relief.
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aside.
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satire.
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Question 2 of 50
2. Question
A fictional prose which is neither a novel nor a short story is a or an
allegory.
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fable.
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novella.
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novelette.
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Question 3 of 50
3. Question
Condensed use of language is a dominant feature of
comedy.
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poetry.
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prose.
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tragedy.
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Question 4 of 50
4. Question
The sudden reversal of a character's fortune in a literary work is
denouement.
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hamartia
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hubris.
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peripeteia.
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Question 5 of 50
5. Question
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
hyperbole.
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irony.
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metonymy.
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paradox.
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Question 6 of 50
6. Question
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.
hands and feet in line 4 illustrate
contrast.
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litotes
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personification.
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synecdoche.
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Question 7 of 50
7. Question
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.
His pen was like the breath of life exemplifies
bathos.
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pathos.
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satire.
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simile.
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Question 8 of 50
8. Question
Comic relief occurs in
comedies.
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pastorals.
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romance.
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tragedies.
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Question 9 of 50
9. Question
One week of fasting makes one weak is an example of
apostrophe.
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paradox.
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pun.
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sarcasm.
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Question 10 of 50
10. Question
Students rarely read Julius Caesar these days illustrates
caesura.
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eponym.
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oxymoron.
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zeugma.
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Question 11 of 50
11. Question
In literature, the term poetic justice applies to
a story that ends well.
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characters that are spared death.
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the development of a good plot.
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the rewarding of good characters and the punishing of bad ones.
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Question 12 of 50
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Ascribing human moods to nature, as in a playful breeze illustrates
humour.
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pathetic fallacy.
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symbolism.
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transferred epithet.
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Question 13 of 50
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The end of a performance is followed by
a curtain call.
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a curtain raiser.
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epilogue.
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interlude.
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Question 14 of 50
14. Question
Read the lines and answer Question 14. Marching along fifty score strong Great hearted gentlemen singing this song The underlined words illustrate
assonance.
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consonance.
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onomatopoeia.
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repetition.
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Question 15 of 50
15. Question
A short poem with a witty or sarcastic ending is a or an
ballad.
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allegory.
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epigram.
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panegyric.
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Question 16 of 50
16. Question
The big boulder blasted the house illustrates
alliteration.
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contrast.
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irony.
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paradox.
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Question 17 of 50
17. Question
Read the extract below and answer Questions 17 and 18. I find no peace and all my war is done I fear and hope. I burn and freeze like ice The dominant literary device used in the lines is
euphemism.
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hyperbole
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paradox.
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understatement.
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Question 18 of 50
18. Question
The feeling of the narrator in the extract is one of
confusion
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fatigue
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love
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joy.
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Question 19 of 50
19. Question
Which of the following is written by an African playwright?
She Stoops to Conquer
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A Raisin in the Sun
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Lonely Days
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The Blood of a Stranger
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Question 20 of 50
20. Question
Which of the following is written by a Non-African poet?
Piano and Drums
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The Dining Table
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The Schoolboy
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The Panic of Growing Older
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Question 21 of 50
21. Question
Read the passage below and answer Questions 21 to 25.
On, on, on, over the countless miles of angry space roll the long heaving billows. Mountains and caves are here; for what is now the one is now the other; then all is but a boiling heap of rushing water. Pursuit, and flight and mad return of wave on wave, and savage struggle, ending up in a spouting up of foam that whitens the black night; incessant change of place and form and hue; constancy in nothing but eternal strife. On, on, on, they roll and darker grows the night; and louder howls the wind and more clamorous and fierce become the million voices in the sea, when the wild cry goes forth upon the storm, 'A ship!'
The most suitable title for the passage is
A Savage Struggle at Night.
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At Sea on a Stormy Night.
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The Long Heaving Waves.
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The Million Voices in the Sea
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Question 22 of 50
22. Question
Read the passage below and answer Questions 21 to 25.
On, on, on, over the countless miles of angry space roll the long heaving billows. Mountains and caves are here; for what is now the one is now the other; then all is but a boiling heap of rushing water. Pursuit, and flight and mad return of wave on wave, and savage struggle, ending up in a spouting up of foam that whitens the black night; incessant change of place and form and hue; constancy in nothing but eternal strife. On, on, on, they roll and darker grows the night; and louder howls the wind and more clamorous and fierce become the million voices in the sea, when the wild cry goes forth upon the storm, 'A ship!'
The predominant use of long vowels in the first sentence heightens the ..... of the waves.
anger
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expanse
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great noise
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endless movement
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Question 23 of 50
23. Question
Read the passage below and answer Questions 21 to 25.
On, on, on, over the countless miles of angry space roll the long heaving billows. Mountains and caves are here; for what is now the one is now the other; then all is but a boiling heap of rushing water. Pursuit, and flight and mad return of wave on wave, and savage struggle, ending up in a spouting up of foam that whitens the black night; incessant change of place and form and hue; constancy in nothing but eternal strife. On, on, on, they roll and darker grows the night; and louder howls the wind and more clamorous and fierce become the million voices in the sea, when the wild cry goes forth upon the storm, 'A ship!'
The writer's attitude to the scene is one of
anxiety
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awe
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contempt.
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indifference.
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Question 24 of 50
24. Question
Read the passage below and answer Questions 21 to 25.
On, on, on, over the countless miles of angry space roll the long heaving billows. Mountains and caves are here; for what is now the one is now the other; then all is but a boiling heap of rushing water. Pursuit, and flight and mad return of wave on wave, and savage struggle, ending up in a spouting up of foam that whitens the black night; incessant change of place and form and hue; constancy in nothing but eternal strife. On, on, on, they roll and darker grows the night; and louder howls the wind and more clamorous and fierce become the million voices in the sea, when the wild cry goes forth upon the storm, 'A ship!'
The expression million voices is used as
conceit.
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euphemism.
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hyperbole.
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metonymy.
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Question 25 of 50
25. Question
Read the passage below and answer Questions 21 to 25.
On, on, on, over the countless miles of angry space roll the long heaving billows. Mountains and caves are here; for what is now the one is now the other; then all is but a boiling heap of rushing water. Pursuit, and flight and mad return of wave on wave, and savage struggle, ending up in a spouting up of foam that whitens the black night; incessant change of place and form and hue; constancy in nothing but eternal strife. On, on, on, they roll and darker grows the night; and louder howls the wind and more clamorous and fierce become the million voices in the sea, when the wild cry goes forth upon the storm, 'A ship!'
A ship in the last line symbolizes
despair.
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hope.
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pirates.
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sailors.
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Question 26 of 50
26. Question
Read the poem and answer Questions 26 to 30.
Oft in the stilly night
Ere slumber's chain has bound me
Fond memory brings the light
of other days around me:
The smiles, the tears of boyhood years.
The words of love then spoken.
The eyes that shone
How dimm'd and gone
The cheerful hearts now broken!
Thus in the stilly night
Ere slumber's chain has bound me.
Sad memory brings the light of other days around me.
The theme is about the poet's
broken love affairs.
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fear of the stilly night.
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sleepless night.
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yearning for happier times gone by.
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Question 27 of 50
27. Question
Read the poem and answer Questions 26 to 30.
Oft in the stilly night
Ere slumber's chain has bound me
Fond memory brings the light
of other days around me:
The smiles, the tears of boyhood years.
The words of love then spoken.
The eyes that shone
How dimm'd and gone
The cheerful hearts now broken!
Thus in the stilly night
Ere slumber's chain has bound me.
Sad memory brings the light of other days around me.
The theme of the poem is presented essentially through
assonance
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contrast.
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paradox
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repetition.
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Question 28 of 50
28. Question
Read the poem and answer Questions 26 to 30.
Oft in the stilly night
Ere slumber's chain has bound me
Fond memory brings the light
of other days around me:
The smiles, the tears of boyhood years.
The words of love then spoken.
The eyes that shone
How dimm'd and gone
The cheerful hearts now broken!
Thus in the stilly night
Ere slumber's chain has bound me.
Sad memory brings the light of other days around me.
The two words that give hint of the poet's unhappiness are
light and night.
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light and shone.
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night and dimm'd.
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shone and dimm'd
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Question 29 of 50
29. Question
Read the poem and answer Questions 26 to 30.
Oft in the stilly night
Ere slumber's chain has bound me
Fond memory brings the light
of other days around me:
The smiles, the tears of boyhood years.
The words of love then spoken.
The eyes that shone
How dimm'd and gone
The cheerful hearts now broken!
Thus in the stilly night
Ere slumber's chain has bound me.
Sad memory brings the light of other days around me.
The poet refers to memory as being 'fond' and 'sad' because it brings
cheers and smiles
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love and joy.
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sorrow and pity.
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smiles and tears.
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Question 30 of 50
30. Question
Read the poem and answer Questions 26 to 30.
Oft in the stilly night
Ere slumber's chain has bound me
Fond memory brings the light
of other days around me:
The smiles, the tears of boyhood years.
The words of love then spoken.
The eyes that shone
How dimm'd and gone
The cheerful hearts now broken!
Thus in the stilly night
Ere slumber's chain has bound me.
Sad memory brings the light of other days around me.
The meaning of the expression, Ere slumber's chain has bound me is
after I wake up
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before I sleep.
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before I dream.
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Since I cannot sleep.
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Question 31 of 50
31. Question
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: Othello
Read the extract and answer Questions 31 to 35.
Zounds, sir, y' are robbed! For shame, put on your gown!
Your heart is burst, you have lost half your soul.
Even now, now, very now, an old black ram
Is tupping your white ewe. Arise, arise!
Awake the snorting citizens with the bell,
Or else the devil will make a grandsire of you.
Arise I say! (Act I, Scene One, Lines 83 - 89).
The speaker is
Cassio
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Iago
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Lodovico.
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Roderigo.
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Question 32 of 50
32. Question
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: Othello
Read the extract and answer Questions 31 to 35.
Zounds, sir, y' are robbed! For shame, put on your gown!
Your heart is burst, you have lost half your soul.
Even now, now, very now, an old black ram
Is tupping your white ewe. Arise, arise!
Awake the snorting citizens with the bell,
Or else the devil will make a grandsire of you.
Arise I say! (Act I, Scene One, Lines 83 - 89).
The listener's initial reaction to the speech is one of
anger.
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defiance.
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disbelief.
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regret.
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Question 33 of 50
33. Question
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: Othello
Read the extract and answer Questions 31 to 35.
Zounds, sir, y' are robbed! For shame, put on your gown!
Your heart is burst, you have lost half your soul.
Even now, now, very now, an old black ram
Is tupping your white ewe. Arise, arise!
Awake the snorting citizens with the bell,
Or else the devil will make a grandsire of you.
Arise I say! (Act I, Scene One, Lines 83 - 89).
The underlined expression implies an attitude of
callousness.
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hypocrisy
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racism.
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tribalism.
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Question 34 of 50
34. Question
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: Othello
Read the extract and answer Questions 31 to 35.
Zounds, sir, y' are robbed! For shame, put on your gown!
Your heart is burst, you have lost half your soul.
Even now, now, very now, an old black ram
Is tupping your white ewe. Arise, arise!
Awake the snorting citizens with the bell,
Or else the devil will make a grandsire of you.
Arise I say! (Act I, Scene One, Lines 83 - 89).
...y' are robbed! Refers to
Brabantio's rejection of Othello.
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Desdemona's stout defence of Othello.
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Iago's stealing of Roderigo's purse.
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Othello's elopement with Desdemona.
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Question 35 of 50
35. Question
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: Othello
Read the extract and answer Questions 31 to 35.
Zounds, sir, y' are robbed! For shame, put on your gown!
Your heart is burst, you have lost half your soul.
Even now, now, very now, an old black ram
Is tupping your white ewe. Arise, arise!
Awake the snorting citizens with the bell,
Or else the devil will make a grandsire of you.
Arise I say! (Act I, Scene One, Lines 83 - 89).
The speaker is
at the citadel of Cyprus.
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in front of Brabantio's house.
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in the council chamber.
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outside the sagittary.
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Question 36 of 50
36. Question
Read the extract and answer Questions 36 to 40.
I will rather sue to be despised than to deceive so good a commander with so slight, so drunken, and so indiscreet an officer. Drunk! And speak parrot! And squabble! Swagger! Swear! And discourse fustian with one's own shadow! O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil! (Act II, Scene Three, lines 262-267)
The speaker is
Cassio
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Iago
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Duke.
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Roderigo.
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Question 37 of 50
37. Question
Read the extract and answer Questions 36 to 40.
I will rather sue to be despised than to deceive so good a commander with so slight, so drunken, and so indiscreet an officer. Drunk! And speak parrot! And squabble! Swagger! Swear! And discourse fustian with one's own shadow! O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil! (Act II, Scene Three, lines 262-267)
The speaker is addressing
Cassio
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Iago
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Othello
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Roderigo.
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Question 38 of 50
38. Question
Read the extract and answer Questions 36 to 40.
I will rather sue to be despised than to deceive so good a commander with so slight, so drunken, and so indiscreet an officer. Drunk! And speak parrot! And squabble! Swagger! Swear! And discourse fustian with one's own shadow! O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil! (Act II, Scene Three, lines 262-267)
The mood is that of
deceit
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envy
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hatred
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regret.
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Question 39 of 50
39. Question
Read the extract and answer Questions 36 to 40.
I will rather sue to be despised than to deceive so good a commander with so slight, so drunken, and so indiscreet an officer. Drunk! And speak parrot! And squabble! Swagger! Swear! And discourse fustian with one's own shadow! O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil! (Act II, Scene Three, lines 262-267)
...so good a commander refers to
Brabantio
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Duke
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Othello
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Roderigo.
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Question 40 of 50
40. Question
Read the extract and answer Questions 36 to 40.
I will rather sue to be despised than to deceive so good a commander with so slight, so drunken, and so indiscreet an officer. Drunk! And speak parrot! And squabble! Swagger! Swear! And discourse fustian with one's own shadow! O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil! (Act II, Scene Three, lines 262-267)
The underlined expression exemplifies
antithesis
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apostrophe
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chiasmus.
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euphemism.
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Question 41 of 50
41. Question
Read the extract and answer Questions 41 to 45.
Speaker X: ... Did he live now,
This sight would make him do a desperate turn;
Yea, curse his better angel from his side,
And fall to reprobation.
Speaker Y: 'T is pitiful; but yet Iago knows
That she with Cassio hath the act of shame
A thousand times committed. Cassio confessed it;
And she did gratify his amorous works (Act V, Scene Two, line 204-211)
... he ..., referred to by Speaker X, is
Brabantio.
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Gratiano.
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Montano.
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Lodovico.
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Question 42 of 50
42. Question
Read the extract and answer Questions 41 to 45.
Speaker X: ... Did he live now,
This sight would make him do a desperate turn;
Yea, curse his better angel from his side,
And fall to reprobation.
Speaker Y: 'T is pitiful; but yet Iago knows
That she with Cassio hath the act of shame
A thousand times committed. Cassio confessed it;
And she did gratify his amorous works (Act V, Scene Two, line 204-211)
... do a desperate turn means
commit suicide.
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confront Duke.
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disown Desdemona
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kill Othello.
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Question 43 of 50
43. Question
Read the extract and answer Questions 41 to 45.
Speaker X: ... Did he live now,
This sight would make him do a desperate turn;
Yea, curse his better angel from his side,
And fall to reprobation.
Speaker Y: 'T is pitiful; but yet Iago knows
That she with Cassio hath the act of shame
A thousand times committed. Cassio confessed it;
And she did gratify his amorous works (Act V, Scene Two, line 204-211)
Speaker Y's speech shows that
Cassio is to blame.
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Emilia is to blame
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he is unrepentant.
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he is regretful.
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Question 44 of 50
44. Question
Read the extract and answer Questions 41 to 45.
Speaker X: ... Did he live now,
This sight would make him do a desperate turn;
Yea, curse his better angel from his side,
And fall to reprobation.
Speaker Y: 'T is pitiful; but yet Iago knows
That she with Cassio hath the act of shame
A thousand times committed. Cassio confessed it;
And she did gratify his amorous works (Act V, Scene Two, line 204-211)
Speaker Y has just
discovered Iago's plan.
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killed Desdemona.
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ordered the arrest of Iago.
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promoted Cassio.
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Question 45 of 50
45. Question
Read the extract and answer Questions 41 to 45.
Speaker X: ... Did he live now,
This sight would make him do a desperate turn;
Yea, curse his better angel from his side,
And fall to reprobation.
Speaker Y: 'T is pitiful; but yet Iago knows
That she with Cassio hath the act of shame
A thousand times committed. Cassio confessed it;
And she did gratify his amorous works (Act V, Scene Two, line 204-211)
Just after this dialogue
Cassio is killed
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Emilia realizes her culpability.
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Iago gloats over his success.
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Roderigo fights Cassio.
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Question 46 of 50
46. Question
Read the extract and answer Questions 46 to 50.
O thou dull Moor, that handkerchief thou speak'st of
I found by fortune, and did give my husband;
For often with a solemn earnestness-
More than indeed belonged to such a trifle-
He begged of me to steal't. (Act V, Scene Two, lines 223 - 227)
The speaker is
Bianca
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Cassio
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Desdemona
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Emilia.
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Question 47 of 50
47. Question
Read the extract and answer Questions 46 to 50.
O thou dull Moor, that handkerchief thou speak'st of
I found by fortune, and did give my husband;
For often with a solemn earnestness-
More than indeed belonged to such a trifle-
He begged of me to steal't. (Act V, Scene Two, lines 223 - 227)
The speaker has just been threatened by
Cassio
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Iago
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Lodovico.
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Othello.
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Question 48 of 50
48. Question
Read the extract and answer Questions 46 to 50.
O thou dull Moor, that handkerchief thou speak'st of
I found by fortune, and did give my husband;
For often with a solemn earnestness-
More than indeed belonged to such a trifle-
He begged of me to steal't. (Act V, Scene Two, lines 223 - 227)
What has just happened is that
Emilia has confirmed her mistress's guilt.
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Iago has openly confessed his crime.
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Othello has murdered his wife
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Roderigo has realized Iago is a fraud.
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49. Question
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O thou dull Moor, that handkerchief thou speak'st of
I found by fortune, and did give my husband;
For often with a solemn earnestness-
More than indeed belonged to such a trifle-
He begged of me to steal't. (Act V, Scene Two, lines 223 - 227)
Soon after this, the Speaker
attempts to run away
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is arrested by Lodovico
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is killed by Iago.
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shows remorse.
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Question 50 of 50
50. Question
Read the extract and answer Questions 46 to 50.
O thou dull Moor, that handkerchief thou speak'st of
I found by fortune, and did give my husband;
For often with a solemn earnestness-
More than indeed belonged to such a trifle-
He begged of me to steal't. (Act V, Scene Two, lines 223 - 227)
This stage of the play is known as the
climax
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conflict
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denouement.
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exposition.
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