JAMB UTME - Literature In English - 2023

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

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 ____

Dramatis personae in a play refers to

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

This question is based on RAIDER OF THE TREASURE TROVE.

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

The overwhelming pride that destroys the tragic hero is called

Be him English

Be him African

Be him Nigerian

The lines above are an example of

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

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

This question is based on BLACK WOMAN.

"fruit with firm flesh" illustrates the use of ____

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

'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

"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

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

'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 SECOND CLASS CITIZEN.

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

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

The subject matter of a literary work is the

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

The poetic device used in this expression is____

Lineation refers to

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

A trilogy is the

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?

A novel that features spiritual apparitions as major character is

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

"I shall booze and zoom" contains a device called