2019 - JAMB Literature Past Questions and Answers - page 2

The subject matter in Lenrie Peter's " panic of growing older" may likened to the extract ; especially with the paradox in the line 6 , pointing to the substitution and / or reversal of strength and responsibility from a child of his father thereafter when the father becomes of age. 

'My heart leaps'  is a good example of personification. Evidence the fact that the heart is being personified to act as though it were real , physical human being. 

Probably on the first instance the statement may not seem true but with a closer examination it appears to be true and realistic. 

The mood and tone of a poem influences a writer while writing, however it is the aura or the surrounding atmospheric presence , or situational environment. 

A woman's place is in the kitchen.' that is a good example of Cliche however cliche is a figuretive language for a phrase that has been over used and also has been of common place without much relevance and originality. 

Through the usage of imaginative thinking to reflect on realities of the day and those of the future, literature establishes it's outstanding quality over and beyond other discipline such as science and the social sciences. 

Comic relief have the effect of creating a fine balance in tragedies such that the funny events and actors drag the minds of the audience to hilarious and calm situations outside the surrounding pitiful purgation of emotions. Comic relief are necessary in tragidies to calm down the tension of the audience having some horrific scene or event. 

Further examination reveals paradox altruism and proverbial importance of it expression though it may seem untrue at first sight. 

Literature adopts the skill often through the use of colourful and powerful language and style to drive home its message and essence. Rhetorics is the art of winning men's mind with words According to Aristotle. 

Good poetry not only conveys its message through the means of appealing words flow but also makes good sense therefore has rhyme and reason is the best answer.