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JAMB UTME Literature 2006 past questions and answers

This 2006 JAMB UTME Literature set has 40 practice questions. Try these 5 free sample questions, tap a question to reveal the answer and explanation. Then practise the whole 2006 set with instant marking.

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1. In a play, a servant hides a forged contract in the study, and the audience sees him do it; later, the owner praises the servant for guarding the room. What device chiefly shapes the audience's response?
  1. Dramatic irony
  2. A flashback
  3. A soliloquy
  4. A comic aside

Answer: A. Dramatic irony

The audience knows the contract is forged and hidden while the owner remains unaware.

2. A poet compares two lovers to the halves of a compass, explaining that one fixed point lets the other travel and return. Which figure is most specifically illustrated?
  1. An understatement
  2. A conceit
  3. An apostrophe
  4. An onomatopoeia

Answer: B. A conceit

The sustained, ingenious comparison between lovers and a compass is a conceit.

3. After a series of disputes, a witness reveals the one fact that forces the central character to choose between saving a friend and obeying the law. Which point in the plot is most likely represented?
  1. The exposition
  2. The resolution
  3. The climax
  4. The epilogue

Answer: C. The climax

The revelation precipitates the decisive confrontation and choice at the plot's peak.

4. A poem mourns a village elder, reflects on mortality, and ends by urging the community to remember his kindness. What kind of poem is it?
  1. A pastoral
  2. An ode
  3. A ballad
  4. An elegy

Answer: D. An elegy

An elegy laments the dead and commonly reflects on loss and remembrance.

5. In the line, 'The impatient rain tapped at every window,' which device gives a non-human thing a human quality?
  1. Personification
  2. Metonymy
  3. Hyperbole
  4. A paradox

Answer: A. Personification

The rain is described as impatient and as tapping, human-like behaviour.

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