2013 - JAMB Literature Past Questions and Answers - page 4

These question is based on General Literary Principles.

Action without speech in a play is

These question is based on General Literary Principles.

A literary work that teaches moral is said to be

These question is based on General Literary Principles.

A mistake committed by the hero which leads to his downfall is known as

These question is based on General Literary Principles.

The speech made by a character to himself on stage is

These question is based on Literary Appreciation.

"Women as a clam, on the sea's crescent
I saw your jealous eye quench the sea's
Fluorescence, dance on the pulse
incessant.

Wole Soyinka:Night
The lines above suggests that women are

These question is based on Literary Appreciation.

"Busy old fool
Unruly sun
Why dost thou thus
Through windows
And through curtains
Call on us?"

J. Donne: The Sun Rising

The excerpts above suggests

These question is based on Literary Appreciation.

"Busy old fool
Unruly sun
Why dost thou thus
Through windows
And through curtains
Call on us?"

J. Donne: The Sun Rising

The figure of speech involved in the lines above is

These question is based on Literary Appreciation.

Will no one tell me what she sings
perhaps the plaintive numbers flow
for old, unhappy, far off things
And battles long ago.
Or is it some more humble lay,
Familiar matter of today?

The lines above shows that the persona

These question is based on Literary Appreciation.

Will no one tell me what she sings
perhaps the plaintive numbers flow
for old, unhappy, far off things
And battles long ago.
Or is it some more humble lay,
Familiar matter of today?

The lines above end in a literary device known as

These question is based on Literary Appreciation.

Oh incomprehensible God!
Shall my pilot be
My inborn stars to that
Final call to thee...

The literary device used in the first line is