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This 2018 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 2018 set with instant marking.

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1. In a play, Nara says to the other characters, “The gate is secure,” then turns away and tells the audience, “I left the key outside.” The second statement is best described as an
  1. entrance cue
  2. aside
  3. soliloquy
  4. epilogue

Answer: B. aside

An aside is a brief remark addressed to the audience that the other characters are conventionally treated as not hearing.

2. A messenger tells the audience that the sealed letter contains a false accusation, but the heroine trusts it and confronts her brother. Which device chiefly shapes this scene?
  1. dramatic irony
  2. verbal irony
  3. comic relief
  4. foreshadowing

Answer: A. dramatic irony

The audience knows the letter is false while the heroine does not, creating dramatic irony.

3. A leader's stubborn pride makes him reject sound warnings, and his decisions bring about his ruin. In the structure of a tragedy, this weakness most closely represents the hero's
  1. peripeteia
  2. catharsis
  3. hamartia
  4. recognition

Answer: C. hamartia

Hamartia is the error or flaw that contributes significantly to a tragic protagonist's downfall.

4. In a script, the instruction “[A low drum sounds as Kemi crosses to the window]” is primarily included to
  1. state the play's central theme
  2. identify the speaker of the next line
  3. supply words for the audience to hear
  4. guide performance through sound and movement

Answer: D. guide performance through sound and movement

Stage directions provide practical cues about actions, movement, sound, setting, or delivery rather than spoken dialogue.

5. Which narrative technique is most evident in a passage that follows a character's rapidly shifting thoughts, memories and associations without orderly explanation?
  1. stream of consciousness
  2. objective narration
  3. epistolary narration
  4. framed narration

Answer: A. stream of consciousness

Stream of consciousness presents the shifting flow of a character's thoughts and mental associations.

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