RISE MOCK Name: ________________________________________________
LITERATURE IN ENGLISH Index Number_________________________________________
OBJECTIVES
1 hour
PAPER 1
RISE MOCK EXAMINATION (WASSCE)
February 2025 LITERATURE IN ENGLISH 1 hour
OBJECTIVES
Write your name and index number in the spaces provided at the top right hand corner of this booklet.
Answer ALL QUESTIONS.
PART 1
GENERAL KNOWLEDGE OF LITERATURE
1. Something a character says on stage that is meant for the audience alone is A. an
epilogue B. a mime C. a soliloquy D. an aside
2. A pause within a line of poetry is A. an alliteration B. a caesura C. a metre D. an
assonance
3. A recurring idea, image, or a group of images that unifies a work of literature is A.
motif B. allusion C. legend D. anecdote
4. An overstatement is otherwise called (A) zeugma (B) irony (C) hyperbole (D)
exaggeration
5. An inscription on a tombstone is an A. epitaph B. epistle C. epigram D. ode
6. A three lined stanza, rhymed ABA, BCD, CDC is a A. couplet B. haiku C. terza rima
D. heroic couplet
7. The chorus normally features prominently in A. poetry B. the epic C. the novel D.
drama
8. A story which explains a natural phenomenon or justifies the beliefs of a society is A.
myth B. legend C. motif D. fable
Read the extract below and answer questions 9 -11.
What happened to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up
Like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like as sore
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
9. The dominant literary device is A. the epithet B. the rhetorical question C. verbal irony
D. paradox
10. Does it stink like rotten meat? makes use of the sense of A. taste B. touch C. sight
D.smell
11. The mood of the poem is one of A. joy B. doubt C. anger D. certainty
12. A short play performed in the pause in between the act of a longer play is
A.denouement B. prologue C. interlude D. epilogue
13. The most intense part of a conflict is the A. resolution B. climax C. denouement D.
deus ex machina
14. I feel a million times better than I felt yesterday is A. an apostrophe B. a euphemism
C. an irony D. an hyperbole
15. Identify the odd item: A. third person narrative B. literary appreciation C. first person
narrative D. epistolary technique
16. A dramatist is someone who ----- plays. A. promotes B. writes C.directs
D.promotes
17. Nando’s family lives within the lower income brackets illustrates A. sarcasm B.
allusion C. climax D. euphemism
18. A dramatic performance without words is A. mime B. an aside C. a monlogue C.
aa soliloquy
19. Utopia id a word used to describe A. strange circumstances B.difficult conditions C.
pleasant feeling D. ideal societies
20. The lawyer addressed the bench illustrates A. simile B. oxymoron C. alliteration D.
metonymy
UNSEEN PROSE AND POETRY
Read the passage carefully and answer questions 21-25.
James’s heart beat madly as he and Alice approached the beeping metal detector at the
entrance. The oblivious swinging door hugged the couple with inviting outstretched
arms and ushered them into the lobby with genial welcome. The receptionist asked
James to surrender any valuable items he had; if they got lost, management would not
be liable.
James looked at Alice. His wife returned the guilt-stricken, dubious look with an
innocent, trusting smile. What would he do if the jewels got missing? How would he
explain it to himself? What would he have gained by his mischief?
What had come over James so shamelessly to decide to rob his own wife? The
swindled woman stood innocently beside her unrepentant husband as he took the key
to their room with hands that shook slightly.
21. The expression door hugged the couple illustrates A. euphemism B. personification
C. litotes D. onomatopoeia
22. The narrative technique is A. first person B. stream of consciousness C. third
person D. interior monologue
23. How would he explain to himself? Exemplifies A. hyperbole B. parallelism C.
rhetorical question D. rhetorical response
24. The writer’s attitude towards James is one of A. sympathy B. distrust C. support D.
disapproval
25. The setting is A. the couple’s home B. a modern hotel C. the airport D. a school
Read the poem and answer questions 26-30
Walker, stop and let me move and check you,
My sneaky, fleeting moon of reckless birth
The light of hope you flashed at dawn has dimmed
And flickers weakly, so you squint at earth.
Walker, stand and let me sit and quiz you,
Will foes and friends be irked if mum you tell
The bitter tales of woe behind your flu?
The trickling tears unseen announce your age.
Walker, stay and let me come and tell you
My fleeting moon, I own you dim my light
Your sparkling blouse has turned a darker hue
You must, I guess, have done a steeplechase.
26. The stanzas are written in A. quintets B. quatrains C. sestets D. tercets
27. The recurring device used is A. synecdoche B. apostrophe C. metonymy D. paradox
28. The mood of the poet is A. derisive B. ecstatic C. regretful D. melancholic
29. The opening lines of the stanzas are A. trochaic B. iambic C. anapestic D. dactylic
30. The first stanza rhymes A. abac B. abab C. abcb D. abba
SECTION B
Answer the questions in this section
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Read the extract below and answer questions 31-35
X: You do impeach your modesty too much,
To leave the city and commit yourself
Into the hands of one that loves you not;
To trust the opportunity of night
And the ill counsel of the desert place
With the rich worth of your virginity.
Y: Your virtue is my privilege: for that
It is not night when I do see your face,
Therefore, I think I am not in the night.
(Act II, Scene One, Lines 214-222)
31. Speaker X is A. Hermia B. Philostrate C. Demetrius D. Lysander
32. Speaker Y is A. Tatiana B. Peaseblossom C. Hippolyta D. Helena
33. Speaker X sees speaker Y A. as a pretender B. as a past lover C. for the first tender
D for the last time
34. Both speakers are in the woods A. to hide from each other B. to spy on each other C.
for different reasons D. for the same reasons
35. Night evolves in the speakers’ A. huge responsibilities B. contrasting feelings C.
despairing thoughts D. erotic feelings
Read the extract below and answer questions 35-40
But masters, here are our parts, and I am
To entreat you, request you, and desire you, to con them by tomorrow night; and meet
me in the place
Wood, a mile
Without the town, by moonlight.
There will we rehearse: for
If we meet in the city, we shall be dogged with
Company, and our devices known.
(Act I, scene two, Lines 79-84)
36. The speaker is A. bottom B. Peaseblossom C. Quince D. Puck
37. The speaker is addressing A. artists B. painters C. actors D. writers
38. They intend to rehearse the play A. A Midsummer Night’s Dream B. Pyramus and
Thisby C. The Tragedy of Lovers D. The Battle Royal
39. The rehearsal is in preparation for A. Egeus’ acceptance of Lysander B. the dance
of fairies C. Theseus’ wedding D. Tatiana waking up from dream
40. The main actors will be A. Snug and Snout B. Philostrate and Starveling C. Puck
and Mustardseed D. Quince and Bottom
Read the extract below and answer questions 41-45
Death do not be proud, though some have called thee
Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so;
For those whom thou think’st thou dost overthrow
Die not, poor Death,not yet canst thou kill me.
From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be,
Much pleasure; then from thee much more must flow,
And soonest our best men with thee do go,
Rest of their bones, and soul’s delievery,
Thou art slave to fate, chance, kings and desperate men,
And dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell,
And puppy or charms can make us sleep as well
And better than thy stroke; why swell’st thou then?
One short sleep past, we wake eternally
And death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die. – John Donne
41. The rhyme scheme of the first four lines of the poem is A. aabb B. abab C. abba D.
baab
42. Line 1, illustrates the use of… A. personification B. oxymoron C. analogy D. aside
43. This poem is a … A. praise poem B. epic C. panegyric D. quatrain
44. The last six lines of the poem is called a A. sestet B.tercet C. couplet D. sonnet
45. This 14 line poem is an example of a… A. Miltonic sonnet B. petrachan sonnet C.
Spenserian sonnet D. Shakespearean sonnet
RISE MOCK Name: ________________________________________________
LITERATURE IN ENGLISH Index Number_________________________________________
PROSE DRAMA AND POETRY
1 hour
PAPER 2 AND 3
RISE MOCK EXAMINATION (WASSCE)
February 2025 LITERATURE IN ENGLISH 1 hour
ESSAY
Write your name and index number in the spaces provided at the top right hand corner of this booklet.
ANSWER QUESTIONS AS INSTRUCTED RESPECTIVELY IN ALL SECTIONS.
ELUCIDATE YOUR ANSWERS CHRONOLOGICALLY
PROSE
SECTION A: AFRICAN PROSE
Answer one question only from this section.
BUCHI EMECHETA: Second Class Citizen
1. How are women treated in the novel?
2. Vividly contrast Adah to her brother.
ALEX A. AGYIRI: Unexpected Joy at Dawn
3. Discuss Nii’s encounter with I-put-it-to-me in the novel.
4. Comment on two themes employed in the prose.
SECTION B : NON-AFRICAN PROSE
RAPH ELLISON: INVISIBLE MAN
5. How does Ras represent the whiteman’s perceptions and treatment of blacks?
6. Examine the narrator’s experience with Kimbro in the novel.
PAPER 3
Answer four questions in all . One question from each section
DRAMA AND POETRY
SECTION A
AFRICAN DRAMA
Answer one question only from this section.
JOHN K KARGBO: Let Me Die Alone
7. Comment on the character of Yoko in the play
8. What challenges is Mende chiefdom confronted with in the play?
WOLE SOYINKA: The Lion and the Jewel
9. Why does Lakunle lose Sidi to Baroka?
10. Examine the theme of love and marriage in the play.
SECTION B
NON-AFRICAN DRAMA
Answer one question only from this section.
JOHN OSBOURNE: Look Back in Anger
11. Compare Jimmy and Cliff as friends.
12. Discuss Jimmy Porter’s sense of alienation.
AUGUST WILSON: Fences
13. Comment on Rose as a foil character to Rose.
14. Comment on Troy’s Perception towards death as seen in the play.
SECTION C
AFRICAN POETRY
Answer one question only from this section.
15. Discuss the personification of rage in the poem, Raiders of the Treasure Trove.
16. Comment on the use of irony employed in the poem Government Driver on His
Retirement .
SECTION D
NON-AFRICAN POETRY
Answer one question only from this section.
17. Consider the use of alliteration, assonance and repetition in the poem, Bisney
Poplars.
18. Comment on two themes employed in the poem caged bird.
