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WAEC SSCE - Literature In English - 2002 (Objective)

Question 1 Report

UNSEEN PROSE AND POETRY

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
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The subject of the passage is "rainfall." The passage describes the arrival of the month of July and the heavy rainfall it brings to the town of Olusi. The author vividly describes the dark sky and the heaps of sand and dust that precede the downpour, and the destructive impact the rainfall has on the town and its inhabitants.
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