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JAMB UTME Literature 2007 past questions and answers

This 2007 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 2007 set with instant marking.

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1. In the original line, ‘The dawn unbuttoned the dark coat of night,’ what figure of speech is most prominent?
  1. Personification
  2. Hyperbole
  3. Onomatopoeia
  4. Oxymoron

Answer: A. Personification

Dawn is given the human action of unbuttoning a coat.

2. Which sound device is chiefly used in the phrase ‘softly the silver streams slid’?
  1. Assonance
  2. Alliteration
  3. Onomatopoeia
  4. Rhyme

Answer: B. Alliteration

The repeated initial sibilant sound creates alliteration.

3. A character confidently says, ‘No one has entered the house,’ while the audience has just watched an intruder hide behind a curtain; this is an example of
  1. verbal irony
  2. comic relief
  3. dramatic irony
  4. a soliloquy

Answer: C. dramatic irony

The audience knows the intruder is present while the character does not.

4. A narrator who uses ‘I’ and reports only what that narrator personally sees and thinks uses which point of view?
  1. Omniscient third person
  2. Objective third person
  3. Second person
  4. First-person limited

Answer: D. First-person limited

The narrator speaks as ‘I’ and is restricted to personal knowledge.

5. In the line ‘Her patience was an anchor in the storm,’ the comparison is a
  1. metaphor
  2. simile
  3. pun
  4. euphemism

Answer: A. metaphor

The line directly identifies patience with an anchor without using ‘like’ or ‘as.’

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