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This 2020 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 2020 set with instant marking.

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Sample NECO SSCE Literature 2020 questions

1. In the line, 'The lamps went out // yet the drums continued,' what is the pause within the line called?
  1. Enjambment
  2. Refrain
  3. Caesura
  4. Euphemism

Answer: C. Caesura

A caesura is a pause occurring within a poetic line.

2. A narrator who reports the thoughts and feelings of several characters, including events they do not witness, is best described as
  1. omniscient
  2. first-person participant
  3. limited third-person
  4. objective observer

Answer: A. omniscient

An omniscient narrator can know and report the inner lives of multiple characters.

3. A character left alone on stage speaks aloud to reveal private thoughts to the audience; this speech is a
  1. chorus
  2. dialogue
  3. aside
  4. soliloquy

Answer: D. soliloquy

A soliloquy is an extended speech in which a character alone voices private thoughts.

4. A poet directly addresses an absent friend as though the friend were present; this figure of speech is
  1. litotes
  2. apostrophe
  3. metonymy
  4. paradox

Answer: B. apostrophe

Apostrophe is direct address to someone absent, dead, or non-human.

5. In the sentence, 'The wind worried the windows all night,' which device gives the wind a human action?
  1. simile
  2. pun
  3. personification
  4. euphemism

Answer: C. personification

Personification attributes the human action of worrying to the wind.

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