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WAEC WASSCE Literature 2024 past questions and answers

This 2024 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 2024 set with instant marking.

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Sample WAEC WASSCE Literature 2024 questions

1. In the lines 'The rain kept tapping on the roof / while all the lamps went out', what is the effect of the line break?
  1. The sentence runs on from one line to the next
  2. The last words of both lines rhyme
  3. A pause divides the middle of one line
  4. A word is repeated at the start of each line

Answer: A. The sentence runs on from one line to the next

The grammatical sense continues across the line break, which is enjambment.

2. In the sentence 'The iron gate groaned as though it had a tired old throat', which figure of speech is used?
  1. Metonymy
  2. Personification
  3. Litotes
  4. Onomatopoeia

Answer: B. Personification

The gate is given a human-like voice and condition, so it is personified.

3. Which sound device is most prominent in 'Silver streams slid silently past the stones'?
  1. Assonance
  2. Consonance
  3. Alliteration
  4. Internal rhyme

Answer: C. Alliteration

The repeated initial sibilant /s/ sound is alliteration.

4. What figure of speech appears in 'Her voice was a lantern in the corridor'?
  1. Simile
  2. Pun
  3. Euphemism
  4. Metaphor

Answer: D. Metaphor

The voice is directly identified with a lantern without using 'like' or 'as'.

5. A poem speaks directly to an absent dead friend as if the friend could hear it; this device is called
  1. apostrophe
  2. refrain
  3. euphemism
  4. paradox

Answer: A. apostrophe

Apostrophe is direct address to an absent person, the dead, or an abstract or non-human entity.

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