WAEC Literature in English 2002 Question 21

Question 21

Literary Appreciation: Prose and Drama
WAEC 2002 Unseen prose: the July downpour
The month of July crept in. The sky, like a hooded monk wore black, as in mourning, ready to shed its load. The sun was mystified while heaps of sand and dust spiralled high up in the sky, sending high and low alike scurrying into hiding. The town had never known such a downpour, it was forty-eight hours of weeping by both the heavens and the inhabitants of Olusi who lost most of their life's savings in this destructive blessing.

The subject of the passage is

  1. A.cloud
  2. B.climate
  3. C.rainfall
  4. D.flood
Show the answer and explanation

Answer: C (rainfall)

Explanation

The passage describes a forty-eight-hour downpour: rainfall.