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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

  1. Question 61· Point of view and narrative techniques· WAEC

    An omniscient narrator

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  2. Question 62· Point of view and narrative techniques· WAEC

    A story told by one of its characters using 'I' is in the

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  3. Question 63· Prose: plot, setting and characterisation· WAEC

    A character who does not change throughout a story is

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  4. Question 64· Prose: plot, setting and characterisation· WAEC

    The main character in a novel is the

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  5. Question 65· Prose: plot, setting and characterisation· WAEC

    The setting of a novel is

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  6. Question 66· Prose: plot, setting and characterisation· WAEC

    The arrangement of events in a story is its

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  7. Question 67· Prose: plot, setting and characterisation· WAEC

    Ambition, betrayal and love are examples of a novel's possible

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  8. Question 68· Prose: plot, setting and characterisation· WAEC

    A character who opposes the main character is the

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  9. Question 69· Prose: plot, setting and characterisation· WAEC

    A foil is a character who

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  10. Question 70· Prose: types of fiction· WAEC

    A long fictional prose narrative is a

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  11. Question 71· Prose: types of fiction· WAEC

    A fable is a short story that

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  12. Question 72· Prose: types of fiction· WAEC

    An autobiography is

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  13. Question 73· Prose: types of fiction· WAEC

    A picaresque novel follows

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  14. Question 74· Prose: types of fiction· WAEC

    A novel in which the story is told through letters is

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  15. Question 75· Prose: types of fiction· WAEC

    A novella is

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  16. Question 76· Set poems: African poetry· WAEC

    In Gabriel Okara's 'Once Upon a Time', the speaker addresses

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  17. Question 77· Set poems: African poetry· WAEC

    In Niyi Osundare's 'Not My Business', the refrain shows the speaker's

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  18. Question 78· Set poems: African poetry· WAEC

    Akanni, Danladi and Chinwe in 'Not My Business' are

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  19. Question 79· Set poems: African poetry· WAEC

    The 'faces' the speaker in 'Once Upon a Time' has learned to wear, such as homeface and officeface, suggest

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  20. Question 80· Set poems: African poetry· WAEC

    In the refrain of 'Not My Business', the speaker cares only that no one takes away his

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