WAEC Literature in English past questions.

1,267 real West African Examinations Council (WASSCE) questions from 1998 to 2026, every one with a worked solution. Practise them timed, on the web, on Android, or offline on desktop.

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Questions held
1,267
Years covered
29
Questions per paper
50
Time allowed
90 min
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Sample Literature in English questions, answered.

Taken straight from the papers below — one from each of the most recent years, with the answer marked and the reasoning written out.

WAEC Literature in English 2026 · Question 1
The element common to all the genres of iiterature is
  1. character identification
  2. narrative technique
  3. stage direction
  4. subject matter — correct answer
Worked solution
Every literary genre - prose, drama and poetry - must have some subject matter, which is what it is about.
WAEC Literature in English 2025 · Question 1
The dominant theme of an epic is
  1. Cowardice
  2. Heroism — correct answer
  3. Sorrow
  4. Victory
Worked solution
An epic is a long narrative poem celebrating the deeds of a hero, so heroism is its dominant theme.
WAEC Literature in English 2024 · Question 1
A poem that is shaped in the image of the object it talks about is.
  1. concrete — correct answer
  2. lyrical
  3. metaphysical
  4. romantic
Worked solution
A concrete poem is laid out typographically in the shape of the object it describes.
WAEC Literature in English 2023 · Question 1
Letters, journals and diaries are examples of
  1. fiction
  2. meta-fiction
  3. faction
  4. non-fiction — correct answer
Worked solution
Letters, journals and diaries record real events and real people, so they belong to non-fiction.
WAEC Literature in English 2022 · Question 1
A novel that features spiritual apparitions as major characters is
  1. epistolary
  2. gothic — correct answer
  3. historical
  4. sociological
Worked solution
The gothic novel is the form defined by supernatural apparitions and ghostly characters.
Every paper we hold

WAEC Literature in English, year by year.

2026
47 questions
2025
48 questions
2024
43 questions
2023
47 questions
2022
42 questions
2021
47 questions
2020
44 questions
2019
38 questions
2018
46 questions
2017
38 questions
2016
34 questions
2015
37 questions
2014
34 questions
2013
34 questions
2012
44 questions
2011
44 questions
2010
38 questions
2009
44 questions
2008
48 questions
2007
45 questions
2006
41 questions
2005
46 questions
2004
42 questions
2003
41 questions
2002
27 questions
2001
39 questions
2000
47 questions
1999
48 questions
1998
94 questions
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How WAEC Literature in English is set.

West African Examinations Council (WASSCE) sets 50 questions in Literature in English, answered in 90 minutes — about 108 seconds a question. Practising against that clock is the part most candidates skip, and it is the part that costs marks.

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