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WAEC WASSCE Literature 2022 past questions and answers

This 2022 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 2022 set with instant marking.

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Sample WAEC WASSCE Literature 2022 questions

1. In a lyric poem, what is the term for the voice that speaks, which may differ from the poet?
  1. The audience
  2. The editor
  3. The persona
  4. The refrain

Answer: C. The persona

The persona is the constructed speaker whose voice is heard in a poem.

2. A poet describes a bitter taste, a rough surface and a distant bell; which feature is chiefly created by these details?
  1. Sensory imagery
  2. Rhyme
  3. Meter
  4. Plot

Answer: A. Sensory imagery

Sensory imagery uses descriptive language that appeals to sight, hearing, taste, touch or smell.

3. Which device is used in the statement, “Her patience was a bridge across the quarrel”?
  1. Onomatopoeia
  2. Simile
  3. Personification
  4. Metaphor

Answer: D. Metaphor

The statement directly identifies patience with a bridge without using “like” or “as,” making it a metaphor.

4. A four-line stanza has end words that rhyme in the order “stone, light, alone, night”; what is its rhyme scheme?
  1. AABB
  2. ABAB
  3. ABBA
  4. AABA

Answer: B. ABAB

“Stone” rhymes with “alone” and “light” rhymes with “night,” producing the pattern ABAB.

5. A sentence continues from one verse line into the next without a grammatical pause at the line ending; what is this device?
  1. Enjambment
  2. Caesura
  3. Refrain
  4. Rhyme

Answer: A. Enjambment

Enjambment occurs when a sentence or phrase runs beyond the end of a poetic line.

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