2019 - JAMB Literature Past Questions and Answers - page 1

Anachrony is the literary word used to explain or discribe when a writer begin their works by (for example) revealing an event at the last scene at the beginning. 

Agon is used to describe a struggle for supremacy either between two characters or between man and a societal problem. 

Anagnorisis is used to define a point where by a character recognises the mistakes which led to his downfall. 

Apostrophe is used to describe an absent person as if present and a dead person or subject matter and as if living, this should not be confused with personification. So the correct answer is Apostrophe because "Night fall" is directly addressed as if it were living being, this is a figurative quality of an Apostrophe. 

The muse is what spurs or drives a writer to reflect his thinking or realities in a literay pieces. It is the source of inspiration for his writings. 

Anelepsis (flash back) is used to reveal a futuristic event at the present moment while prolepsis is literay used for foreshadowing unlike flash back. 

The poet with the usage of powerful imageries and symbols as 'gun' and 'wound' reveals that the subject matter of the poem is that of brutality or horrors of war and not mere conflict therefore brutality is the best answer. 

Africans needs to celebrate their Ancestors and sustain their values because the Birago Diop's attitude was that of condemnation , sarcasm and ridicule. 

The poet glimpse of hope at very beginning, was how however overtaken by the feeling of worry as to the challenges of maturity and growing older. 

A diligent tracing of the rhyme pattern in the excerpt above will result into the 'abcacc' scheme therefore 'abcacc' is the best answer.