2018 - JAMB Literature Past Questions and Answers - page 5

An Author is who writes a prose

A protagonist is the leading character or the major characters in a play film or novel, the protagonist is the advocate or champion of a particular cause or idea.

The climax (turning point) of a narrative work is its point of highest tension between the protagonist and the antagonist in a drama

Oxymoron is a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction (e.g. faith unfaithful kept him falsely true ).

A group of lines in a poem is known as a stanza

Parallelism is a literary device in which parts of the sentence are grammatically the same or similar in construction, it could be a word, phrase an entire sentence repeated. A perfect example is the Martin Luther king Jr’s famous “I have a dream” repetition makes the speech compelling and rhythmic as well as memorable.

Alliteration is the commencement of two or more stressed syllables of a word group either with the same consonant sound or sound group (consonantal alliteration), as in from stem to stern, or with a vowel sound that may differ from syllable to syllable (vocalic alliteration), as in each to all.

A playwright is someone who writes plays for the stage.

Cast is the list of all characters in a drama.