2019 - JAMB Literature Past Questions and Answers - page 8
Okara's reminiscence in the "Piano and Drums" as to how he walks to the farm with no shoes, marching thorns and dangerous leafs, and still finds this enjoyable creates a feeling of___________
The poet ignites a nostlagic feeling- home coming, as he recalls and thanks traditional and local green lifestyle which brought in positive contemplation at the end.
Analogy is the arrangement of two ideas that are_________
"As the waters of the sea return to their pebbles, so our lives return to their graves" Similar is the correct answer.
... a didactic poem, especially such with animals as characters may be distinctively described as a/an_________
An Apologue usually conveys both surface and deeper meanings, it is that type of moral feble with animals as characters.
One of the following is not significant to Morris' "The Proud King"
" The proud King" is actually a biblical allusion because it an epic poem which is didactic in nature and teaches moral lessons , it is also concern for the sense of good virtue makes as well a parable of some kind.
'The dun dun of a drum' is an example of an__________
Onomatopoeia is the answer because it is the figurative expression which uses words that suggestive of the sounds to bring out certain meaning example "Tick took" says the clock.