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Nigeria · West Africa 🇳🇬WAEC WASSCE — English Language, Mathematics and 16 elective subjects, each with its own Beginner–Advanced track.
📏 WAEC grades A1–F9. A credit (C6 or better) in five subjects — including English Language and Mathematics — is the standard university entry requirement.
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Beginner
Beginner skill
No prior knowledge assumed — the vocabulary and core elements of Literature-in-English as WAEC/JAMB test them.
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StartThe Three Genres of Literature
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Figures of Speech: Simile, Metaphor and Personification
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🔒 After lessonsElements of Prose Fiction
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Plot and Setting
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Characterization
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🔒 After lessonsElements of Drama
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Plot Structure in Drama: Exposition, Conflict, Climax, Resolution
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Dramatic Techniques: Dialogue, Stage Directions, Soliloquy
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Intermediate
Intermediate skill
Deeper analysis of poetry, theme and narrative technique — the skills WASSCE tests beyond simple identification.
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🔒 After lessonsElements of Poetry
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Rhyme, Rhythm and Meter
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Poetic Devices: Imagery, Alliteration, Symbolism
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🔒 After lessonsTheme and Conflict
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Identifying Theme in Prose and Drama
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Types of Conflict: Man vs Man, Man vs Society, Man vs Self
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Critical appreciation, unseen passages and comparative analysis — the skills that separate top Literature-in-English scores.
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🔒 Module checkpoint · PremiumTone, Mood and Style
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🔒 Module checkpoint · PremiumAfrican Literature in Context
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🔒 Module checkpoint · PremiumLiterature-in-English: Theory & Essay Writing (Paper 2)
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- Literary principles: genres of literature and their features (prose, drama, poetry; oral literature)The Three Genres of Literature →Identifying Theme in Prose and Drama →
- Literary principles: prose — types of novel and narrative techniques (point of view, plot, flashback, setting)Plot and Setting →Narrative Point of View: First-Person, Third-Person, Omniscient →
- Literary principles: drama — types (tragedy, comedy, tragicomedy, farce, melodrama) and dramatic devices (soliloquy, aside, dramatic irony, chorus)Dramatic Techniques: Dialogue, Stage Directions, Soliloquy →
- Literary principles: poetry — forms and types (sonnet, ode, elegy, ballad, lyric, epic, dirge, free verse)Practise →
- Literary principles: sound and structure in poetry (rhyme, rhythm, metre, alliteration, assonance, onomatopoeia, refrain)Rhyme, Rhythm and Meter →
- Literary principles: figures of speech (simile, metaphor, personification, hyperbole, irony, paradox, oxymoron, euphemism, metonymy, synecdoche, apostrophe)Figures of Speech: Simile, Metaphor and Personification →
- Literary principles: theme, tone, mood, atmosphere, diction, imagery, symbolism and satirePoetic Devices: Imagery, Alliteration, Symbolism →Tone and Mood →
- Literary principles: characters and characterisation (protagonist, antagonist, foil, flat and round characters)Practise →
- Unseen prose passage (subject matter, tone, diction, narrative technique, figures of speech)Analysing an Unseen Prose Extract →Author's Style and Diction →
- Unseen poem (subject matter, mood, imagery, poetic devices, form)Poetic Devices: Imagery, Alliteration, Symbolism →Analysing an Unseen Poem →
- Prescribed Shakespeare play: context — speaker, listener, occasion and what happens nextPractise →
- Prescribed Shakespeare play: characters and characterisationPractise →
- Prescribed Shakespeare play: themesIdentifying Theme in Prose and Drama →Themes Common to African Prose and Drama: Culture, Colonialism, Conflict →
- Prescribed Shakespeare play: language, imagery and dramatic techniquesDramatic Techniques: Dialogue, Stage Directions, Soliloquy →
- Prescribed Shakespeare play: setting, plot and structurePlot and Setting →Plot Structure in Drama: Exposition, Conflict, Climax, Resolution →
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