JAMB UTME - Literature In English - 2023

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

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 ___
 

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

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

The use of two contrasting words that are placed side by side is called

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.

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

"I shall booze and zoom" contains a device called

The combination of two or more metaphors is called

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 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 ____

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

'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

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

This question is based on SECOND CLASS CITIZEN.

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

'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?

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

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?

"The sun used to smile in my hut".

The line is an example of

Dramatis personae in a play refers to

This question is based on THE LION AND THE JEWEL.

The indication that Soyinka's "The Lion and the Jewel" is culturally set is its use of_____

This question is based on BLACK WOMAN.

"fruit with firm flesh" illustrates the use of ____

An extended fictional narrative which is realistic is known as a

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

The sides of a stage are called

*For seven days it rained that June;
A storm half out to sea kept turning around like a dog trying to settle himself on a rug; We were the fleas that
complained in his hair.
John Updike, Wash

The image set in the lines above are of

'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

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

A trilogy is the

'... Not a few of us ended our application letter like this: 'if you are kind enough to accomodate this humble application, Sir/Madam, I shall do my uttermost best to rendered you the greatest services which it is at my desposition to your best satisfactory. Yours obediently servant...' yet without English, you had no education fit for a white collar job
Cameron Daodu: The Gab Boys

The tone of the passage above is 

When he gave me the bottle, and I opened it,
I was shocked by the odour that hit my nose:
I immediately corked it again, and spat on the floor..
Isidore Okpewho, The Last Duty.

The reaction in the passage above is that of

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