JAMB UTME - Literature In English - 2023

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

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

The poetic device used in this expression is____

This question is based on BLACK WOMAN.

"fruit with firm flesh" illustrates the use of ____

*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

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_____

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

A novel that features spiritual apparitions as major character is

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

'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

'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

"The sun used to smile in my hut".

The line is an example of

The combination of two or more metaphors 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

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____
 

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___

Dramatis personae in a play refers to

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

"I shall booze and zoom" contains a device called

'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?

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

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

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

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 character that is always against the interest of the protagonist is

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

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

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 ___
 

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

The speaker in the excerpt above is

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

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

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