Igbo Paper 2 WASSCE (SC), 2020

Question 9

 

Write out three metaphors used to qualify ‘Anyanwụ’; to state three things with which ‘Anyanwụ’ can be equated with and write down four things that can happen in the absence of ‘Anyanwụ’

Observation

This question is from the poem ‘Anyanwụ’ in the poetry book Uche Bu Ahia. Here, candidates were required to write out three metaphors used to qualify ‘Anyanwụ’; to state three things with which ‘Anyanwụ’ can be equated with and write down four things that can happen in the absence of ‘Anyanwụ’.
Expected answers:
(a)  Okirikiri nọ n’etiti igwe
      Ọ dị nso eru aka
      Agadaga okoro ọma zuru ụwa onụ

(b) ọlaedo
    eruru nkwụ
    ahụ nwa ọhụrụ

    oyoyo

(c) Itiri ga-ekpuchi elu igwe
     Mmadụ ga na-asọ isi
     Ụmụanụmanụ ga-edere duu
     Ebe niile ga-ada jụụ