2020 - JAMB Literature Past Questions and Answers - page 1

This question is based on General Literary Principles.

The technique used in bringing the plot of a play to an abrupt end is called

This question is based on Ayi Kwei Armah's 'The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born.'

The destruction of the conch along with Piggy's death in the novel suggests

In the novel "Piggy's" glasses symbolizes

"Why should I play the Roman fool, and die

On mine own sword?"

Based on William Shakespeare's Macbeth,playing the Roman fool from the above statement implies

This question is based on selected poems from D. Ker, C. Maduka et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa, Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa, K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.

'I hear your call

I hear if far away

I hear it break the circle'

The device in which the first two words of the lines above from Okara's 'The Call of the River NUN' are invaried while the rest very is called

This question is based on General Literary Principles.

The literary term which describes the angle at which a writer tells his story is

This question is based on Ayi Kwei Armah's Fragments .

The novel suggests that an individual who stays apart from his society will

This question is based on William Shakespeare's Hamlet.

Claudius, though a murderer, is presented as a character

This question is based on Literary Appreciation

'Thathat is why wwe must acc-c-cept the universal d-d-dome,b-b-because ththere is no d-d-d-direction. The b-b-bridge is the d-d-dome of rreligion and b-b-bridges d-ddon't jjjust g-g-go from hhhere to ththere; a birdge also faces backwards'

Wole Soyinka, The Interpreters

The idiolectal feature of the character's speech is the

This question is based on General Literary Principles

Empathy is achieved when the audience