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This 2001 NECO SSCE 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 2001 set with instant marking.

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Sample NECO SSCE Literature 2001 questions

1. A character confidently welcomes a visitor whom the audience knows has come to expose the character's secret. Which dramatic device is at work?
  1. Situational irony
  2. Dramatic irony
  3. Comic relief
  4. A flashback

Answer: B. Dramatic irony

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

2. A poem that mourns a dead person and reflects on loss is best described as a(n)
  1. ode
  2. epigram
  3. pastoral
  4. elegy

Answer: D. elegy

An elegy is a poem of mourning or reflection on death and loss.

3. In an oral praise poem, repeated honorific names chiefly serve to
  1. celebrate a person's qualities and achievements
  2. introduce a new scene in a play
  3. conceal the speaker's identity
  4. provide a factual stage direction

Answer: A. celebrate a person's qualities and achievements

Praise names and epithets publicly celebrate the subject's qualities or deeds.

4. In a printed play, the instruction '[She turns away and lowers her voice]' is primarily a
  1. dialogue cue
  2. chorus
  3. stage direction
  4. prologue

Answer: C. stage direction

A stage direction guides actors' movements, delivery, or other performance details.

5. A deliberate pause in the middle of a line of poetry is called a
  1. foot
  2. refrain
  3. couplet
  4. caesura

Answer: D. caesura

A caesura is a pause occurring within a poetic line.

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