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All topicsDrama: types and elements · 9Dramatic techniques · 7Figures of speech · 9General literary terms · 7Literary appreciation: unseen poetry · 5Literary appreciation: unseen prose · 5Poetry: imagery, sound and structure · 7Poetry: types and forms · 7Point of view and narrative techniques · 6Prose: plot, setting and characterisation · 7Prose: types of fiction · 6Set poems: African poetry · 10Set poems: Non-African poetry · 17Set text: A Man for All Seasons (Robert Bolt) · 9Set text: An Inspector Calls (J. B. Priestley) · 10Set text: Antony and Cleopatra (Shakespeare) · 13Set text: The Marriage of Anansewa (Efua Sutherland) · 4Set text: To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee) · 14
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Question 22· Figures of speech· WAEC
'I have told you a million times' is
Explanation and discussionQuestion 23· Figures of speech· WAEC
Saying 'Aso Rock has announced a new policy' to mean the Presidency is
Explanation and discussionQuestion 24· Figures of speech· WAEC
'All hands on deck', where hands stand for sailors, is
Explanation and discussionQuestion 25· Figures of speech· WAEC
'She is as busy as a bee' is
Explanation and discussionQuestion 26· General literary terms· WAEC
A euphemism is
Explanation and discussionQuestion 27· General literary terms· WAEC
Litotes is
Explanation and discussionQuestion 28· General literary terms· WAEC
Diction in literature refers to
Explanation and discussionQuestion 29· General literary terms· WAEC
A paradox is a statement that
Explanation and discussionQuestion 30· General literary terms· WAEC
Satire uses humour and ridicule to
Explanation and discussionQuestion 31· General literary terms· WAEC
Apostrophe as a literary device is
Explanation and discussionQuestion 32· General literary terms· WAEC
In literature, irony means
Explanation and discussionQuestion 33· Literary appreciation: unseen poetry· WAEC
The Harmattan Teacher Each dry December, dust comes calling, a grey shawl over Kano's walls; it cracks the lips of the bold and the small, and teaches the trees how to wait. We cough, we curse, we cover our faces, yet the farmer reads its patient lesson: what the wind steals, the rain repays, and every bare branch keeps a promise of green. (An original poem written for AdmitMe practice.)
'a grey shawl over Kano's walls' is an example of
Explanation and discussionQuestion 34· Literary appreciation: unseen poetry· WAEC
The Harmattan Teacher Each dry December, dust comes calling, a grey shawl over Kano's walls; it cracks the lips of the bold and the small, and teaches the trees how to wait. We cough, we curse, we cover our faces, yet the farmer reads its patient lesson: what the wind steals, the rain repays, and every bare branch keeps a promise of green. (An original poem written for AdmitMe practice.)
In the poem, the 'teacher' is
Explanation and discussionQuestion 35· Literary appreciation: unseen poetry· WAEC
The Harmattan Teacher Each dry December, dust comes calling, a grey shawl over Kano's walls; it cracks the lips of the bold and the small, and teaches the trees how to wait. We cough, we curse, we cover our faces, yet the farmer reads its patient lesson: what the wind steals, the rain repays, and every bare branch keeps a promise of green. (An original poem written for AdmitMe practice.)
The lesson the farmer reads is that
Explanation and discussionQuestion 36· Literary appreciation: unseen poetry· WAEC
The Harmattan Teacher Each dry December, dust comes calling, a grey shawl over Kano's walls; it cracks the lips of the bold and the small, and teaches the trees how to wait. We cough, we curse, we cover our faces, yet the farmer reads its patient lesson: what the wind steals, the rain repays, and every bare branch keeps a promise of green. (An original poem written for AdmitMe practice.)
'teaches the trees how to wait' is an example of
Explanation and discussionQuestion 37· Literary appreciation: unseen poetry· WAEC
The Harmattan Teacher Each dry December, dust comes calling, a grey shawl over Kano's walls; it cracks the lips of the bold and the small, and teaches the trees how to wait. We cough, we curse, we cover our faces, yet the farmer reads its patient lesson: what the wind steals, the rain repays, and every bare branch keeps a promise of green. (An original poem written for AdmitMe practice.)
The mood of the last two lines is
Explanation and discussionQuestion 38· Literary appreciation: unseen prose· WAEC
Mama Nkechi opened her shop before the first cock had finished crowing. She swept the doorway with short, angry strokes, as though the dust had insulted her personally. Across the road, the new supermarket glowed behind its glass, its shelves as orderly as soldiers on parade. Customers who had bought her groundnut oil for twenty years now walked past with their eyes fixed on their phones. Still, every morning she arranged her tins in a careful pyramid and waited, because waiting, she said, was also a kind of work. (An original passage written for AdmitMe practice.)
The last sentence presents Mama Nkechi as
Explanation and discussionQuestion 39· Literary appreciation: unseen prose· WAEC
Mama Nkechi opened her shop before the first cock had finished crowing. She swept the doorway with short, angry strokes, as though the dust had insulted her personally. Across the road, the new supermarket glowed behind its glass, its shelves as orderly as soldiers on parade. Customers who had bought her groundnut oil for twenty years now walked past with their eyes fixed on their phones. Still, every morning she arranged her tins in a careful pyramid and waited, because waiting, she said, was also a kind of work. (An original passage written for AdmitMe practice.)
Mama Nkechi's 'short, angry strokes' suggest that she is
Explanation and discussionQuestion 40· Literary appreciation: unseen prose· WAEC
Mama Nkechi opened her shop before the first cock had finished crowing. She swept the doorway with short, angry strokes, as though the dust had insulted her personally. Across the road, the new supermarket glowed behind its glass, its shelves as orderly as soldiers on parade. Customers who had bought her groundnut oil for twenty years now walked past with their eyes fixed on their phones. Still, every morning she arranged her tins in a careful pyramid and waited, because waiting, she said, was also a kind of work. (An original passage written for AdmitMe practice.)
'as orderly as soldiers on parade' is
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