JAMB UTME - Literature In English - 2023

This question is based on BLACK WOMAN.

"fruit with firm flesh" illustrates the use of ____

Jibunoh was simply a difficult man. He was hated by all his neighbours and deserted by his relations. He was the first and only person to beat a policeman in the entire village. He also had ten cases instituted against him for either stealing or violating the rights of others. He had no regard for deanery or normal conduct. No lover of peace or order could be his friends. It is not surprising that his death elicited jubilation rather than mourning'

The passage above reveals that Jibunoh symbolizes

The narrative style in which the hero tells his own story directly is the

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

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

"I shall booze and zoom" contains a device called

"The sun used to smile in my hut".

The line is an example of

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 ___
 

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

The moment of recognition of truth when ignorance gives away to knowledge is known as

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

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

A character that is always against the interest of the protagonist is

The overwhelming pride that destroys the tragic hero is called

Dramatis personae in a play refers to

CYCLIST gets down and begins to prop his bicycle.
CYCLIST: All right. If you're sure it won't take long.
BARBER: I am known for my lightning clippers. Even the soldiers know me. I can shave the head of an entire battalion between one coup and the next. Sit down and relax your back. Cycling is not easy
when you've abandoned it for some time.
Wole Soyinka, The Beautification of Area Boy.

The literary devices in the dialogue above are

Careened',
These oily tears
Dripping down the tears on your depressed face,
Will one day be staunched, I swear!
Ibiwari Ikiriko, Oily Tears.

The tone of the poet is

When an object is invested with a meaning beyond its immediate reference, it becomes

The combination of two or more metaphors is called

An extended fictional narrative which is realistic is known as a

The subject matter of a literary work is the

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

The exclusive right given to authors to protect their works from unlawful production is

Lineation refers to

'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

"She wanted to split herself. But she checked herself. 'Get dressed,' she said earnestly. 'Get dressed and let's go. You know I have a lot of things to do. And if we are going to meet again like this... 'She slapped the bed, 'then it won't be here. It will be at the Samson and Delilah.'" -
Festus Iyayi; Violence

In the passage above, the speaker can be described as

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

"Many years on wheels" The reference to "wheels" exemplifies the use of ___ in the poem.

Jose Palacios, his oldest servant, found him floating naked with his eyes open in the purifying waters of his bath and thought he had drowned. He knew this was, one of the many ways the General meditated, but the ecstasy in which he lay drifting seemed that of a man no longer of this world.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, The General in His Labyrinth

The master in the passage above is obviously in a state of

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

'The fair breeze blew
The white foam flew
The furrow followed free
We were the first that ever burst
Into that silent sea.'

The dominant figure of speech in the above passage is