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NECO SSCE Literature 2015 past questions and answers

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Sample NECO SSCE Literature 2015 questions

1. In a poem, the speaker describes a ruined town as ‘a patient wound beneath the moon’. Which tone is most strongly suggested by this image?
  1. Triumphant celebration
  2. Detached amusement
  3. Compassionate sorrow
  4. Impatient excitement

Answer: C. Compassionate sorrow

The wound image presents the town as suffering and invites pity, creating a sorrowful, compassionate tone.

2. A character who has spent the play condemning dishonesty is exposed as the only person who falsified the accounts. What device is most clearly at work?
  1. Situational irony
  2. Euphemism
  3. Onomatopoeia
  4. Personification

Answer: A. Situational irony

The character's hypocritical exposure reverses the audience's expectation and is situational irony.

3. A narrator reports only what one character can see, hear, and think, without entering the minds of others. Which narrative mode is being used?
  1. Omniscient narration
  2. First-person narration
  3. Epistolary narration
  4. Third-person limited narration

Answer: D. Third-person limited narration

Third-person limited narration restricts access to the perceptions and thoughts of one character.

4. In a script, the instruction ‘(She turns away, concealing the letter)’ chiefly provides information about what?
  1. The audience's response
  2. A character's physical action
  3. The play's historical setting
  4. The actor's speech rhythm

Answer: B. A character's physical action

The bracketed instruction directs the actor's movement and visible behaviour on stage.

5. Which sound device is most prominent in the phrase ‘soft steps slip silently’?
  1. Assonance
  2. Consonance
  3. Alliteration
  4. Rhyme

Answer: C. Alliteration

The repeated initial sibilant sound at the beginnings of nearby words is alliteration.

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