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JAMB UTME Literature 2014 past questions and answers

This 2014 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 2014 set with instant marking.

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1. In a poem, a recurring locked gate is used to suggest the speaker's exclusion from opportunity; what is the gate functioning as?
  1. A symbol
  2. A refrain
  3. A caesura
  4. An aside

Answer: A. A symbol

The gate represents an abstract condition, exclusion, through a concrete object, so it functions as a symbol.

2. Which feature is chiefly examined when a reader scans a poem to identify its recurring pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables?
  1. Diction
  2. Setting
  3. Metre
  4. Plot

Answer: C. Metre

Metre is the patterned arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables in verse.

3. A poet repeats the same line at the end of each stanza to reinforce a central idea; the repeated line is a
  1. couplet
  2. caesura
  3. refrain
  4. foot

Answer: C. refrain

A refrain is a line or phrase repeated at intervals, often at the end of stanzas.

4. A sentence in a poem can reasonably mean either that the speaker has left the city or that the city has left the speaker; this deliberate openness is
  1. hyperbole
  2. alliteration
  3. euphemism
  4. ambiguity

Answer: D. ambiguity

Ambiguity occurs when a word or expression permits more than one plausible interpretation.

5. When assessing whether a poet's vocabulary is formal, colloquial, or archaic, a reader is examining the poet's
  1. diction
  2. plot
  3. setting
  4. conflict

Answer: A. diction

Diction refers to a writer's choice and use of words.

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