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JAMB UTME Literature 2010 past questions and answers

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1. In a poem, what is a caesura?
  1. A pause or break within a line of verse
  2. A repeated group of lines at the end of each stanza
  3. The pattern of end-rhymes in a stanza
  4. The final section that resolves a plot

Answer: A. A pause or break within a line of verse

A caesura is a pause or syntactic break occurring within a poetic line.

2. A character confidently trusts a visitor, while the audience knows the visitor has come to betray the character; which device is at work?
  1. Verbal irony
  2. Dramatic irony
  3. Comic relief
  4. A soliloquy

Answer: B. Dramatic irony

Dramatic irony occurs because the audience knows something important that the character does not.

3. Which figure of speech is used in the sentence, 'The stubborn door refused to open'?
  1. Simile
  2. Hyperbole
  3. Personification
  4. Euphemism

Answer: C. Personification

The door is given the human ability to refuse, which is personification.

4. A line that recurs at regular intervals in a poem is called a
  1. couplet
  2. caesura
  3. foot
  4. refrain

Answer: D. refrain

A refrain is a line or phrase repeated at intervals in a poem or song.

5. A character alone on stage speaks thoughts that the audience hears; this speech is a
  1. soliloquy
  2. dialogue
  3. chorus
  4. prologue

Answer: A. soliloquy

A soliloquy presents a character's thoughts aloud while the character is alone on stage.

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