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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 81· Set poems: African poetry· WAEC

    In 'Once Upon a Time', the speaker says that people now laugh only with their

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  2. Question 82· Set poems: African poetry· WAEC

    In Soyinka's 'Night', night is presented as a force that the speaker feels to be

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  3. Question 83· Set poems: African poetry· WAEC

    At the end of 'Once Upon a Time', the speaker asks his son to

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  4. Question 84· Set poems: African poetry· WAEC

    In Wole Soyinka's 'Night', the poet speaks directly to night. This device is

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  5. Question 85· Set poems: African poetry· WAEC

    'Not My Business' ends with

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  6. Question 86· Set poems: Non-African poetry· WAEC

    Maya Angelou's 'Still I Rise' is mainly about

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  7. Question 87· Set poems: Non-African poetry· WAEC

    Byron's 'She Walks in Beauty' praises the woman's

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  8. Question 88· Set poems: Non-African poetry· WAEC

    'The Nun's Priest's Tale' is best described as

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  9. Question 89· Set poems: Non-African poetry· WAEC

    The speaker's grandfather in 'Digging' cut

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  10. Question 90· Set poems: Non-African poetry· WAEC

    The fox in 'The Nun's Priest's Tale' catches Chauntecleer by

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  11. Question 91· Set poems: Non-African poetry· WAEC

    In Seamus Heaney's 'Digging', the speaker's father and grandfather dug with spades, while the speaker will dig with

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  12. Question 92· Set poems: Non-African poetry· WAEC

    'She Walks in Beauty' makes much use of contrast between

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  13. Question 93· Set poems: Non-African poetry· WAEC

    The 'you' addressed throughout 'Still I Rise' stands for

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  14. Question 94· Set poems: Non-African poetry· WAEC

    In Byron's 'She Walks in Beauty', the woman's beauty is first compared to

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  15. Question 95· Set poems: Non-African poetry· WAEC

    In 'Digging', the pen is said to rest in the speaker's hand 'snug as a gun'. This is

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  16. Question 96· Set poems: Non-African poetry· WAEC

    The repeated words 'I rise' at the end of 'Still I Rise' form a

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  17. Question 97· Set poems: Non-African poetry· WAEC

    In 'The Nun's Priest's Tale', the hen who scoffs at Chauntecleer's dream is

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  18. Question 98· Set poems: Non-African poetry· WAEC

    The main idea of Heaney's 'Digging' is that the poet

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  19. Question 99· Set poems: Non-African poetry· WAEC

    Chauntecleer escapes from the fox by

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  20. Question 100· Set poems: Non-African poetry· WAEC

    Each stanza of 'She Walks in Beauty' rhymes

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