WAEC SSCE - Literature In English - 2011 (Objective)

Question 1 Report

Read the poem and answer the question

Here stood our ancestral home
The crumbling wall marks the spot
Here a sheep was led to the slaughter
To appease the goods and atone
For fauilts which our destiny
Has blossomed into crimes
There my cursed father once stood
And shouted to us, his children
To come back from our play
To our evening meal and sleep.

The underlined means that

they were living in a house with a high wall

their building is no longer where it used to be

the children had caused the wall to crumble

their father made them pull down the wall

Answer Details

The underlined means that their ancestral home is no longer standing, but only a crumbling wall is left to mark where it once stood. This suggests that their family has experienced some kind of loss or decline.






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