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This 2020 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 2020 set with instant marking.

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Sample WAEC WASSCE Literature 2020 questions

1. In the line, 'The moon kept time with silver chime,' which device is created by the internal rhyme of 'time' and 'chime'?
  1. Internal rhyme
  2. Alliteration
  3. Refrain
  4. Blank verse

Answer: A. Internal rhyme

The two rhyming words occur within the same line, producing internal rhyme.

2. A deliberate pause within a line of poetry, often marked by punctuation, is called a
  1. stanza
  2. caesura
  3. refrain
  4. couplet

Answer: B. caesura

A caesura is a pause occurring within a poetic line.

3. A poet writes, 'O departed father, guide my steps tonight!' The direct address to the absent father is an example of
  1. hyperbole
  2. euphemism
  3. apostrophe
  4. onomatopoeia

Answer: C. apostrophe

Apostrophe directly addresses an absent, dead or non-human subject.

4. In a play, the audience knows that the signed treaty is forged, but the hero trusts it completely; this contrast creates
  1. verbal irony
  2. comic relief
  3. a soliloquy
  4. dramatic irony

Answer: D. dramatic irony

Dramatic irony occurs when the audience knows something important that a character does not.

5. When a sentence in a poem continues beyond the end of a line without a strong pause, the technique is
  1. enjambment
  2. end-stopping
  3. assonance
  4. repetition

Answer: A. enjambment

Enjambment carries a sentence or phrase from one poetic line into the next.

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