WAEC (WASSCE) Literature in English · Literary Appreciation

Unseen prose and poetry: WAEC Literature in English Past Questions and Answers

What the WAEC syllabus covers in Unseen prose and poetry

Our summary: Answering questions on a short prose passage and a poem you have not seen before: what each says and how it is written.

  • Unseen prose passage
  • Unseen poem

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WAEC (WASSCE) Literature in English questions on Unseen prose and poetry

  1. WAEC 2024In … and moved inwards the kitchen, like one sleepwalking, the simile portrays one who is
  2. WAEC 2022Did your read our minds in your lies? exemplifies
  3. WAEC 2021does it stink like rotten meat? makes use of the sense of
  4. WAEC 2021. ..and he had rushed at them, scattering them as some strieked and some laughed illustrates
  5. WAEC 2020The meaning of the expression, Ere slumber's chain has bound me is
  6. WAEC 2020The poet refers to memory as being 'fond' and 'sad' because it brings?
  7. WAEC 2017Yet, let me flap this bug with gilded wings, This painted child of dirt, that stinks and stings The poets intention is to …
  8. WAEC 2017Yet, let me flap this bug with gilded wings, This painted child of dirt, that stinks and stings The alliteration in stinks and stings effectively conveys … -
  9. WAEC 2015'To bring forth sons and daughters brave'' illustrates

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