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This 2024 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 2024 set with instant marking.

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1. In a play, the audience sees a forged contract before the scene begins, but the hero trusts it as genuine and signs it. Which device is at work?
  1. Dramatic irony
  2. Verbal irony
  3. Situational irony
  4. Parody

Answer: A. Dramatic irony

The audience knows the contract is forged while the hero does not, creating dramatic irony.

2. In the sentence, 'The courtroom was a furnace during the final testimony,' the courtroom is described as a furnace mainly through the use of
  1. simile
  2. metaphor
  3. personification
  4. pun

Answer: B. metaphor

The courtroom is directly identified with a furnace to suggest intense heat or pressure, making the comparison a metaphor.

3. Which sound device is most prominent in the phrase 'wild winds worried the windowpanes'?
  1. Assonance
  2. Consonance
  3. Alliteration
  4. Onomatopoeia

Answer: C. Alliteration

The repeated initial 'w' sound in nearby words is alliteration.

4. The action in a story that follows the climax and brings the main conflict toward its final resolution is the
  1. exposition
  2. rising action
  3. complication
  4. denouement

Answer: D. denouement

The denouement is the part after the climax in which consequences unfold and the plot is resolved.

5. A story is narrated by a character who repeatedly uses 'I' to recount events in which that character personally takes part. The narrative point of view is
  1. first person
  2. second person
  3. third-person omniscient
  4. third-person objective

Answer: A. first person

A narrator who recounts personal experience using 'I' tells the story from the first-person point of view.

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