Igbo Paper 2 WASSCE (PC), 2018

Question 9

 

Observation

Candidates were asked to explain five sentences and the figures of speech they contain and five sentences used by the author to describe the sun in the poem: ‘Anyanwu’.

 

The following points were expected:
(a) (i) Ị dịka ọlaedo - myiri (ii) mara mma oyoyo - egbeokwu (iii) Agadaga okoro ọma - mmemmadụ (iv) Ị lakpụo ụra – mmemmadụ (v) okirikiri nọ n’etiti igwe – mbụrụ

(b) five sentences used by the author to describe the sun
- Ọ bụ ọ dị nso erughị aka
O zuru ụwa ọnụ
Ọ na-erugharị n’igwe
Ọ bụ okirikiri nọ n’etiti igwe
Ọ na-enwu ka ọlaedo
Ọ mara mma oyoyo
Ụwa ji ya ahụ uzo, etc.

Many candidates attempted this question and did justice to it.