2005 - JAMB Literature Past Questions and Answers - page 4

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Cast in a play refers to

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

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A careful choice of words dictated by a particular mood or an event refers to

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The insertion of material unrelated or distantly related to the insertion of material unrelated or distantly related to the specific subject under discussion in a given work is called

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

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Unity of time in a tragedy implies that all actions should take place

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A short, carefully phrased expression meant to elicit amusement and surprise is

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'History's stammerer when will your memory master the vowels of your father's name?
Niyi Osundare: Waiting Laughter's
The literary device used in the excerpt above is

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''It is a beauteous evening, calm and free The holy time is quiet as a Nun Breathless with adoration; the broad sun Is sinking down in its tranquility; The gentleness of heaven broods O'er the sea: Listen! the might Being is awake And doth with his eternal motion make A sound like thunder-everlasting'.
W. Wordsworth: It is a Beauteous Evening
The rhyme scheme of the stanza above is

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'And the promised pleasure will the face of vanished treasure in the face of plundered pound hidden beneath roots of greener grasses in a land far from the masses