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WAEC WASSCE Literature 2019 past questions and answers

This 2019 WAEC WASSCE Literature set has 40 practice questions. Try these 5 free sample questions, tap a question to reveal the answer and explanation. Then practise the whole 2019 set with instant marking.

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Sample WAEC WASSCE Literature 2019 questions

1. In the original line, ‘Dawn poured a ribbon of gold across the sleeping roofs,’ which feature chiefly helps the reader picture the scene?
  1. Visual imagery
  2. Auditory imagery
  3. Olfactory imagery
  4. Tactile imagery

Answer: A. Visual imagery

The gold ribbon and roofs create a vivid picture that appeals mainly to sight.

2. In the original line, ‘The canoe slipped through the reeds like a fish,’ which figure of speech is used?
  1. Metaphor
  2. Simile
  3. Personification
  4. Paradox

Answer: B. Simile

The comparison is explicitly signalled by the word ‘like’.

3. In the original line, ‘The restless wind scratched at the shutters,’ which device gives a non-human force a human action?
  1. Onomatopoeia
  2. Metonymy
  3. Personification
  4. Euphemism

Answer: C. Personification

The wind is described as performing the human action of scratching.

4. A poet ends each of four stanzas with the identical line, ‘We shall return at dawn’; what is this repeated line called?
  1. A caesura
  2. A couplet
  3. An enjambment
  4. A refrain

Answer: D. A refrain

A refrain is a line or phrase repeated at intervals in a poem.

5. In the original phrase, ‘silver streams silently slide,’ which sound device is most prominent?
  1. Alliteration
  2. Assonance
  3. End rhyme
  4. Onomatopoeia

Answer: A. Alliteration

The repeated initial sibilant sound at the beginnings of the words is alliteration.

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