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WAEC Literature in English 2000 Question 27

Question 27

Literary Appreciation: Prose and Drama
Unseen prose: questions 26–30
The passage, as printed

The writer's mood is one of

  1. A.anger
  2. B.fear
  3. C.pity
  4. D.disappointment
Show the answer and explanation

Answer: C (pity)

Explanation

The writer dwells on the soldiers' hunger, cold, disease and weakness in a sympathetic way, so the writer's mood is one of pity. The fear of the French is the soldiers' feeling, not the writer's.