2023 - JAMB Literature Past Questions and Answers - page 4

'As virtuous men pass mildly away,
And whisper to their souls, to go
Whilst some of their sad friends do say,
The breadth goes now, and some say, "No".'

John Donne: A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning

The tone of this poem is generally

Which of these is the oldest genre of literature?

\'And so Tom awoke and we rose in the dark
And got with our bags and our brushes to work
Though the morning was cold, Tom was happy and warm;
So if all do their duty they need not fear harm.
\'

In the lines above, Tom is warm because he

Using the name of one thing for something else with which it is closely associated in an instance is

This question is based on CAGED BIRD.
"for the caged bird/sings of freedom.",

The poetic device used in this expression is____

The term given to a type of incident or device which recurs frequently in Literature is

'My heart is a quiet drum, something it flares like a parched thunder cracking through a damask sky it lifts me in its fired spectacle.'
-Cynthia James; Drumology

The imagery in the excerpt above is largely

The subject matter of a literary work is the

The sides of a stage are called