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WAEC Literature in English questions: Literary appreciation: unseen prose

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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 1· 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 discussion

  2. Question 2· 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 discussion

  3. Question 3· 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

    Explanation and discussion

  4. Question 4· 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 passage is narrated in the

    Explanation and discussion

  5. Question 5· 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 main conflict in the passage is between

    Explanation and discussion

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