Waec Literature in English 2020 Past Questions and Answers

Question 1:

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A situation where an audience is aware of an action a character is ignorant of is ________

A. Dramatic irony
B. Comic relief
C. Aside
D. Satire

Question 2:

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A fictional prose which is neither a novel nor a short story is a/an __________

A. Allegory
B. Fable
C. Novella
D. Novelette

Question 3:

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Condensed use of language is a dominant feature of ___________

A. Comedy
B. Poetry
C. Prose
D. Tragedy

Question 4:

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The sudden reversal of a character's fortune in a literary work is _________

A. Denouement
B. Hamartia
C. Hubris
D. Peripeteia

Question 5:

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Read the extract below and answer Questions 5 to 7.
With the pen, he wrote kings into reality
With his words, kingdoms arose,
Those same words, slaves inhaled
Their hands building walls, their feet tromping territories
His pen was like the breath of life.
The underlined words illustrate ________

A. Hyperbole
B. Irony
C. Metonymy
D. Paradox