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This 2023 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 2023 set with instant marking.
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1. Read the line: 'Dusk wrapped the valley in a purple shawl.' Which kind of imagery is most directly created by the line?
- Visual imagery
- Auditory imagery
- Olfactory imagery
- Gustatory imagery
Answer: A. Visual imagery
The colour purple and the visible valley create a picture in the reader's mind, so the dominant appeal is visual.
2. A six-line stanza in a poem is commonly called a
- tercet
- sestet
- quatrain
- couplet
Answer: B. sestet
A sestet is a unit of six poetic lines.
3. At the end of each stanza, a poet repeats the line 'The gate remembers every name.' This repeated line is a
- metonymy
- pun
- refrain
- euphemism
Answer: C. refrain
A refrain is a line or phrase repeated at regular intervals in a poem.
4. In the line 'I waited—then the bell rang,' the dash most clearly marks a
- rhyme scheme
- foot
- stanza break
- caesura
Answer: D. caesura
A caesura is a significant pause within a line, often indicated by punctuation.
5. In a conventional Petrarchan sonnet, the octave consists of the first
- eight lines
- six lines
- four lines
- twelve lines
Answer: A. eight lines
The Petrarchan sonnet is traditionally divided into an eight-line octave and a six-line sestet.
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