Duncan AsanaenyiI believe that you’re here because you don’t know the nature of how exams are being set by WAEC. If you don’t, then you’re at the right place.
In this guide, we will talk extensively on WAEC past questions and answers for literature in English, show you possible questions that may likely fall into the exams paper in the proceeding year.
Not only that, you’ll be given adequate instructions on how to answer questions on WAEC
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The WAEC past questions and answers are mostly repeated year after year, which is why you have to read this guide carefully till the end and take notice of those questions.
Most times, I hear students giving complains about how hard the questions is, reason behind it is that they failed to study using our guide.
I believe if you’re reading this, you will definitely want to pass your exams with flying colours. See more details on the instructions and guidelines given by WAEC to follow while writing the exams below.
Important Guidelines to follow in your WAEC Examination
There are alot of guidelines and instructions you as a student need to follow. We will bring to light what needs to be done accordingly.
The examination paper is divided into three different parts, which is Part 1,2 & 3
Part 1 is Objectives. You should expect 50 questions from this section.
Part 2 is DRAMA and POETRY theory questions, you should be expecting 5 questions to answer 3 from this section.
Part 3 is Prose theory questions
You should also note that the West African Examination Council frowns at cheating. Any candidate who is caught cheating will be sentenced to life imprisonment.
WAEC Lit-in-English Prose & Objective Question
The questions you see below are possible questions that might be repeated in this year’s examination.
Endeavor to read this guide to the end carefully with understanding, where possible ask relevant questions and we’ll reply prompt.
SECTION A:
Prose: African Prose
ASARE KANADU: A Woman in Her Prime
1. Discuss the relationship between Pokuwaa and Koramoah
2. Give an account of Yaw Boakye’s funeral
ADICHIE CHIMAMANDA NGOZI: Purple Hibiscus
1. What are the causes of conflicts between Eugene and his children?
2. Comment on the significance of the Palm Sunday clash
Section B
Prose: Non African Prose
WILLIAM GOLDINGS: Lord of the flies
1. Discuss any three symbol used in the novel
2. Examine the significance of the rivalry between Jack and Ralph
ERNEST HEMINGWAY: The Old Man and the Sea
1. Comment on the conflict between man and nature in the novel
2. What are the consequences of Santiago’s pride in the novel
Paper 1
1. The choice and the use of words in a literary work is
A. Style
B. Diction
C. Vocabulary
D. Metaphor
2. A poem in praise of a person or thing is known as
A. Ode
B. Ballad
C. Elegy
D. Lyric
3. Imagery in a literary work
A. Creates suspense
B. Accentuate humour
C. Heightens the dramatic atmosphere
D. Appeals to the senses
4. Through the device called soliloquy
A. A play is made to end
B. The audience is made to laugh
C. The theme is highlighted
D. A character motives is revealed
5. ________ is a collection of works by different authors.
A. Novel
B. Anthology
C. Novella
D. Trilogy
6. In drama the purposeful use of gestures and actions is
A. Soliloquy
B. Mime
C. Eulogy
D. Aside
7. The introductory remarks to a literary work is a
A. Foreword
B. Prologue
C. Epilogue
D. Blurb
8. “..………. poisonous pleasure of wine” is an example of
A. Synecdoche
B. Metonymy
C. Metaphor
D. Oxymoron
9. The repetition of identical sounds at the end of the line is
A. Enjambment
B. Rhythm
C. Mime
D. Rhyme
10. A play that ends in catastrophe is a
A. Tragedy
B. Fable
C. Masque
D. Farce
11. A question which does not require an answer is
A. Discourse
B. Rhetorical
C. Ironic
D. Flashback
12. Words used in a particular way to achieve special effects and meaning can be defined as
A. Proverbs
B. Pathetic fallacy
C. Fiction
D. Figurative language
13. “ The stars blinked and the wind wailed” is an example of
A. Antithesis
B. Euphemism
C. Paradox
D. Personification
14. A piece of writing on a tombstone is called
A. Epigraph
B. Epitet
C. Epitaph
D. Epigraph
15. Fiction is a/an ________ story
A. True
B. Realistic
C. Imaginative
D. Allegorical
16. Identify the odd item
A. Cast
B. Stanza
C. Cue
D. Dialogue
17. A pair of rhyming lines in poetry is known as
A. Couplet
B. Octave
C. Quatrain
D. Sestet
18. The division within the acts of a play are called
A. Episodes
B. Sections
C. Scenes
D. Scenario
Your world is as big as you make it
I know for I used to abide
In the narrowest nest in a corner
My wings pressing close to my side
But I sighted the distant horizon
Where the skyline encircled the sea
And I throbbed with a burning desire
To travel this immensity
I battered the cordons around me
And cradled my wings on the breeze
Then soared to the uttermost reaches
With rapture, with power, with ease.
19. The poet is
A. Angry
B. Frustrated
C. Excited
D. Indifferent
20. “ Your world is a big as you make it” illustrates
A. Metonymy
B. Paradox
C. Simile
D. Epigram
21. The theme of the peom is
A. Need to overcome limitations
B. Joy of travelling
C. Flight of birds
D. Sighting of the sea
22. The poem is best described as/an
A. Ode
B. Epic
C. Pastoral
D. Lyric
23. The last stanza is made up of
A. End stop lines
B. Rhyming couplets
C. Alternate rhymes
D. Run on lines
WAEC Literature in English Drama & Poetry Theory Questions
AFRICAN DRAMA
FRANK OGODO OGBECHE: Harvest of Corruption
1. Discuss the role of the madman and his contributions to the development of the play
2. ‘Here, there is no food for a lazy man, you have to be pushful’. Discuss this statement in relation to Ochuole’s activities in the play.
DELE CHARLEY: The Blood of a Stranger
3. With a close reference to the text, discuss the use of symbolism.
4. Discuss the role of the gods in the play.
NON AFRICAN DRAMA
OLIVER GOLDSMITH: She Stoops to Conquer
1. With adequate textual illustrations, discuss the play as a comedy
2. Give a detailed account of how Kate stoops to conquer
AFRICAN POETRY
1. Discuss any four themes in Gabriel Okara’s ‘Piano and Drama’.
2. Lenrie Peters’ “The Panic of Growing Old” depicts a contest between youthfulness and old age. Discuss.
NON AFRICAN POETRY
1. Discuss “The Proud King” by William Morris as an allegorical poem
2. Discuss any three themes portrayed in Williams Blake’s “The Schoolboy”
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