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This 2023 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 2023 set with instant marking.

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1. In a poem, the sentence 'At dawn she crossed the empty field / and found the gate unfastened' continues across the line break without a pause; which technique is used?
  1. Caesura
  2. End-stopping
  3. Enjambment
  4. Refrain

Answer: C. Enjambment

Enjambment occurs when a sentence or phrase runs on from one poetic line to the next without a terminal pause.

2. The line 'I waited — the door remained shut' contains a marked pause within the line; what is this pause called?
  1. Caesura
  2. Enjambment
  3. Refrain
  4. Couplet

Answer: A. Caesura

A caesura is a pause or break occurring within a line of poetry.

3. A character confidently enters a room, unaware that the audience has already seen the hidden danger waiting there; which device is at work?
  1. Verbal irony
  2. Comic relief
  3. Foreshadowing
  4. Dramatic irony

Answer: D. Dramatic irony

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

4. A novel tells its story entirely through letters exchanged by its characters; what form does it use?
  1. Epistolary form
  2. Picaresque form
  3. Stream-of-consciousness form
  4. Autobiographical form

Answer: A. Epistolary form

An epistolary novel presents its narrative through documents such as letters.

5. A speaker cries, 'O Justice, return to this wounded land!' although Justice is an abstract idea; which figure of speech is used?
  1. Metonymy
  2. Apostrophe
  3. Onomatopoeia
  4. Hyperbole

Answer: B. Apostrophe

Apostrophe directly addresses an absent person, an abstract idea, or a non-human thing.

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