JAMB UTME - Literature In English - 2023

Dramatis personae in a play refers to

A story with elements that have both literal and figurative meanings is 

This question is based on THE LEADER AND THE LED.

" The hyena says the crown is made for him" in the above excerpt, the use of the word "crown " is a good deployment of ____

This question is based on RAIDER OF THE TREASURE TROVE.

"To fly flags of joy" Two figures of speech used here are

'My heart is a quiet drum, something it flares like a parched thunder cracking through a damask sky it lifts me in its fired spectacle.'
-Cynthia James; Drumology

The imagery in the excerpt above is largely

A metrical pause occurring in the middle of a line in a poem is called

'And so Tom awoke and we rose in the dark
And got with our bags and our brushes to work
Though the morning was cold, Tom was happy and warm;
So if all do their duty they need not fear harm.'

In the lines above, Tom is warm because he

A formal dignified speech or writing praising or a thing for past or present deeds is

'Will college make you a better Olokun priest?
Will it make you serve our ancestors better?
Look at me. An able-bodied, strong-hearted priest of Olokun.
Did I go to college?
Gracy Osifo:Dizzy Angel

The literary device used in the passage above is

This question is based on CAGED BIRD.
"for the caged bird/sings of freedom.",

The poetic device used in this expression is____

A trilogy is the

This question is based on THE JOURNEY OF THE MAGI.

Read the excerpt and answer question
"And running away, and wanting their liquor and women,
And the night-fires going out, and the lack of shelters,
And the cities hostile and the towns unfriendly"

The dominant device in this excerpt is ___
 

A long story narrating a series of complicated events is called a

This question is based on BAT.

Use the excerpt to answer questions .
"Where light pushes through;
A sudden turning upon itself of a thing in the air.
A dip to the water.
And you think:
"The swallows are flying so late!"
Swallows?"

The dominant poetic device in the excerpt is___

This question is based on CAGED BIRD.

Read this excerpt from the poem and answer questions .

"The free bird thinks of another
breeze / and the trade winds
soft through the sighing trees"

What is the effect of the trees sighing in this verse?

'Fierce harmattan sun on innocent tendrils; torrential downpour on leaking thatch roofs; painful comfort of helpless eunuchs; thorny beauty of modern witches; the falcon's call on day-old-chicks, ours is tragi- comic dialogue:... mute echoes of pains' .

The sonority and rhythmical structure of the lines above are achieved through a pause- pattern called

A Government Driver on His Retirement is a poem of thirty-three lines divided into _______ stanzas.

Lineation refers to

The term given to a type of incident or device which recurs frequently in Literature is

An extended fictional narrative which is realistic is known as a

'Senhor Jose got cold during the night. After having uttered those redundant useless words, here she is, he wasn't sure what else he should do. It was true that, after long and arduous labours, he had managed, at last, to find the unknown woman, or rather, the place where she lay, a good six feet beneath an earth that still sustained him'
Jose Saramago: All the Names

What happens to the unknown woman in the passage above?

This question is based on A GOVERNMENT DRIVER ON HIS RETIREMENT.

"I shall booze and zoom" contains a device called

This question is based on THE SONG OF THE WOMEN OF MY LAND.

Use the excerpt to answer questions

"they sang in the forlorn fields
about their lives; songs
of how they ploughed the terrain of their landscape
for memories of lyrics lost in the vast void of time,
in those days when a song beheld their lives;
when servitude cuffed the ankles of their soul,
and dereliction decapitated the epic of their lives."

The theme of this excerpt is____
 

An action in a play that stimulates the audience to pity a character is

A structural arrangement of unit of composition by which one element of equal importance with another is similarly placed is called

"I had not taken the first step in knowledge, I had not learnt to let go with the hands".The above lines is an example of a

This question is based on SECOND CLASS CITIZEN.

"She swallowed it all, just like a nasty pill." The literary device employed here is

Don't panic. Be calm. If you are somehow upset...try to regain your composure.

The speaker in the excerpt above is

The subject matter of a literary work is the

A tragic hero, according to the Aristotelian precept, must be a