WAEC AND NECO APPROVED READING TEXT FOR 2021-2025
LITERATURE-IN-ENGLISH
AFRICAN PROSE
- Second Class Citizen by Buchi Emecheta
- Unexpected Joy at Dawn by Alex Agyei-Agyiri (2018 Edition)
NON AFRICAN PROSE
- Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronté
- Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
AFRICAN DRAMA
- Let me Die Alone by John K. Kargbo
- The Lion and the Jewel by Wole Soyinka
NON AFRICAN DRAMA
- Look Back in Anger by John Osborne
- Fences by August Wilson
AFRICAN POETRY
- “Black Woman” by Leopard Sedar Senghor
- “The Leader and the Led” by Niyi Osundare
- “The Grieved Lands” by Agostinho Neto
- “The Song of the Woman of my Land” by Oumar Farouk Sesay
- “Raider of the Treasure Trove” by Lade Wosomu
- “A Government Driver on his Retirement” by Onu Chibuike
NON AFRICAN POETRY
- “The Good-Morrow” by John Donne
- “Caged Bird” by Maya Angelou
- “The Journey of the Magi” by T.S Eliot
- “Do not Go Gentle into the Good Night” by Dylan Thomas
- “Binsey Poplars (Felled 1879)” by G.M. Hopkins
- “Bat” by David H. Lawrence
DRAMA TEXT FOR OBJECTIVE/CONTEXTUAL QUESTIONS
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare
SUCCESS TIPS ON WASSCE/NECO LITERATURE-IN-ENGLISH QUESTIONS
The Literature-in-English question is in three parts – paper 1, paper 2 and paper 3. Papers one and two are to be done together at one sit while paper 3 is to be done alone at one other sit.
Paper 1 [50 marks]: This is a 50 objective multiple choice questions to be answered in 1 hour. The 50 questions are composed of the following:
a) General knowledge of Literature – twenty (20) questions;
b) Unseen prose passage – five (5) questions;
c) Unseen poem – five (5) questions;
d) Shakespearean text – twenty (20) contextual questions
Paper 2 [50 marks]: This is theory type questions to be answered in 1 hour 15 minutes. Paper 2 is made up of two sections. Section A is on African Prose and section B is on Non-African Prose. Students will be required to answer one out of the two questions in each of sections A and section B. That amounts to 2 questions.
Paper 3 [100 marks]: This is theory type questions to be answered in 2 hours 30 minutes. Paper 3 is made up of 4 sections. They are:
a) Section A: African Drama
b) Section B: Non-African Drama
c) Section C: African Poetry
d) Section D: Non-African Poetry
Students will be required to answer one out of the two questions in each of the sections A, B, C and D. That amounts to 4 questions.
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