Preparing for the WAEC Literature in English exam becomes easier when you have the right study guide. The WAEC Literature in English Syllabus PDF Download is the official roadmap that outlines everything you are expected to read, study, and understand before entering the examination hall. This syllabus helps candidates focus on the exact texts, literary devices, genres, themes, and skills WAEC will test.
LITERATURE-IN-ENGLISH
| Category | Title and Author |
| AFRICAN PROSE | Second Class Citizen by Buchi Emecheta |
| Unexpected Joy at Dawn by Alex Agyei-Agyiri (2018 Edition) | |
| NON-AFRICAN PROSE | Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison |
| Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë | |
| SHAKESPEAREAN TEXT | A Midsummer Night’s Dream |
| 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 Leopold Sedar Senghor |
| “The Leader and the Led” by Niyi Osundare | |
| “The Grieved Lands” by Agostinho Neto | |
| “The Song of the Women of my Land” by Oumar Farouk Sesay | |
| “Raider of the Treasure Trove” by Lade Wosornu | |
| “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 |
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