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This 2019 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 2019 set with instant marking.

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1. In a play, the audience has learned from a letter that the merchant's ship sank, but the merchant, unaware of this, raises a toast to its safe return. Which dramatic device is used?
  1. Comic relief
  2. A flashback
  3. Dramatic irony
  4. A soliloquy

Answer: C. Dramatic irony

The audience knows a fact that the character does not, creating dramatic irony.

2. A novel is narrated by a character who recounts her own childhood and can only infer what her sister was thinking. Which point of view best describes the narration?
  1. First-person limited
  2. Omniscient third-person
  3. Objective third-person
  4. Second-person

Answer: A. First-person limited

A first-person narrator tells the story as a participant and cannot directly know another person's private thoughts.

3. A poet ends a line after the words 'She watched the river' but completes the sentence in the next line with 'carry the lantern away.' What is the continuation of the sentence across the line break called?
  1. A caesura
  2. A refrain
  3. A stanza break
  4. Enjambment

Answer: D. Enjambment

Enjambment occurs when a sentence or phrase continues beyond the end of a poetic line.

4. In a plot, which part usually presents the point of greatest tension, when the central conflict reaches its most decisive moment?
  1. The exposition
  2. The climax
  3. The denouement
  4. The setting

Answer: B. The climax

The climax is the high point of tension and often determines the direction of the conflict's outcome.

5. In the sentence, 'At dawn the courtroom listened patiently to every protest,' which figure of speech is most prominent?
  1. Hyperbole
  2. Simile
  3. Personification
  4. Onomatopoeia

Answer: C. Personification

The courtroom is given the human action of swallowing, which makes the expression personification.

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