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JAMB UTME Literature 2002 past questions and answers

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1. In a story, the narrator says, 'I waited beside the locked gate until dawn, though I knew the key was in my pocket.' Which narrative point of view is used?
  1. Second-person narration
  2. Third-person limited narration
  3. First-person narration
  4. Third-person omniscient narration

Answer: C. First-person narration

The narrator uses 'I' to recount an experience as a participant or observer.

2. A novelist never calls Tola generous, but shows her quietly leaving her lunch for a hungry classmate; this is characterisation mainly through
  1. action
  2. physical description
  3. authorial commentary
  4. setting

Answer: A. action

Tola's conduct allows readers to infer her generosity from what she does.

3. A narrative opens with a family already divided over an inheritance, then gradually reveals the earlier quarrel that caused the division; the earlier episode is a
  1. climax
  2. denouement
  3. foreshadowing
  4. flashback

Answer: D. flashback

A flashback interrupts the present action to present an earlier event.

4. A character struggles to obey a law she believes is unjust while fearing the consequences of disobedience; the main conflict is between
  1. two rival communities
  2. the character and her conscience
  3. the character and nature
  4. a parent and child

Answer: B. the character and her conscience

The competing duties and fears within the character create an internal conflict.

5. In a play, the witness finally names the murderer, causing the accused to flee and the crowd to turn against him; this decisive turning point is the
  1. exposition
  2. climax
  3. setting
  4. prologue

Answer: B. climax

The climax is the point of greatest tension or decisive change in the action.

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