2020 - JAMB Literature Past Questions and Answers - page 2

This question is based on General Literary Principles.

A literary work in which the characters and events are used as symbols is known as

This question is based on General Literary Appreciation.

"Serrated shadows, through dark leaves

Til, bathed in warm suffusion of your

dapped cells

Sensation pained me, faceless, silent

as night thieves."

                          Wole Soyinka: Night<br />

The dominant mood in the lines above is one of

This question is based on General Literacy Principles

A literacy device wherein the author places a person, concept, idea or theme parallel to another is ________?

This question is based on Frank Ogodo Ogbeche's Harvest of Corruption

The play portrays the judiciary as

This question is based on Literary Principles.

'They came for him that Sunday. He had just returned from a night's vigil on the mountain. He was resting on his bed, Bible open at the Book of Revelation, when two police constables, one tall, the other short, knocked at the door.'

Ngugi, 'Petals of Blood'

The writer of the passage above arrests the interest of the reader by employing

This question is based on Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge.

The statement, 'Time the magician, had wrought much here' is made when

Based on Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and The Sea,Santiago's second dream occurs

He is a faithful liar

The line above is an example of

This question is based on J.C Graft's Sons and Daughters
,Now look what we have:a permanent bloom of ugly paper flowers!'
The device used by Aaron in the excerpt above is

This question is based on selected poem from Ker, D. et al (eds.):New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ed.):Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds):A selection of African poetry; Umukoro, M. et al (eds.): Exam Focus Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A.E. et al (eds.); Longman Examination Guides; Nwoga, D.I.(ed.); West Africa Verse and Adeoti G.: Naked Soles
'The silence of the battlefield heralds the widow's anguish.'
The widow in the lines above in Launko's End of the War is in anguish because of the