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Literature in English 2025 WAEC Past Questions

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Read the poem below and answer the question that follows:

Miniver Cheevy, child of scorn,
Grew lean while he assailed the season;
He wept that he was ever born,
And he had reasons.
Miniver loved the days of old
When swords were bright and steeds prancing;
The vision of a warrior bold
Would set him dancing.

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child of scorn illustrates

  • A. contrast
  • B. euphemism
  • C. metaphor
  • D. metonymy
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The metrical structure is predominantly

  • A. spondaic
  • B. iambic
  • C. trochaic
  • D. dactylic
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Reading the poem, one notices that the poet is being

  • A. ironic
  • B. sarcastic
  • C. Hyperbolic
  • D. euphemistic
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In the last stanza, the persona is

  • A. malnourished
  • B. fantasising
  • C. pretending
  • D. angry
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The two stanzas are built on

  • A. identical rhyme
  • B. run on lines
  • C. alternate rhyme
  • D. couplets
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