2022 - JAMB Literature Past Questions and Answers - page 4
Purgation of emotion, pity and fear is
exposition
epilogue
catharsis
catastrophe
Option C is the correct answer.
The audience's response or reaction to a work of literature is known as catharsis.
The narrator in a prose work who is also a character is
omniscient narrator
participatory narrator
objective narrator
subjective narrator
Option D is the correct answer.
In a story with a subjective narrator, the narrator himself is also a character in the story, and this kind of story is told using the first-person narrative technique.
"Rays of sun", the line is an example of
Synecdoche
Irony
Apostrophe
Personification
Option D is the correct answer.
The quality of having a "ray" is attributed to the sun.
'To see a world in a grain of sand
And a heaven in a wild flower
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand
And eternity in an hour'
- William Blake
To see a World In a Grain of Sand.
The predominant figure of speech used in the lines above is
metaphor
simile
paradox
hyperbole
Option A is the correct answer.
Every line can be interpreted as a metaphor, meaning it's a creative way of describing something by comparing it to something else that has a similar characteristic.
"I had not taken the first step in knowledge, I had not learnt to let go with the hands".The above lines is an example of a
Aspotrophe
Alliteration
Repetitiion
Assonance
Option C is the correct answer.
When the same phrases are repeated at the beginning of each line in Literarure is refers to as Repetition.
Chanson is term denoting a
popular Korean verse
Song from the middle Ages
Form of love song
poem of Varied Metrical forms
Option C is the correct answer.
A Chanson is a type of love song that is specifically directed towards a woman.
'The fair breeze blew
The white foam flew
The furrow followed free
We were the first that ever burst
Into that silent sea.'
The dominant figure of speech in the above passage is
repetition
alliteration
paradox
rhyme scheme
Option D is the correct answer.
The rhyme scheme is the main literary figure in the passage above because of the appearance of sound and the patternized movement or flow of the words.
Which of these is the oldest genre of literature?
Poetry
Prose
Aroma
Drama
Option A is the correct answer.
The oldest genre of literature is poetry.
A device used by a writer to recall past event in a literary work is
anti-climax
interlude
flashback
foreshadowing
Option C is the correct answer.
Flash back brings past occurrences into the present.
The hunter dies
and leaves his poverty to his gun
The blacksmith dies
and leaves his poverty to his anvil...
The extract above is an example of
epic
eulogy
ballad
elegy
Option D is the correct answer.
An elegy is a poem written in sorrow for the dead, often mourning the loss of figures such as a hunter or blacksmith.