JAMB UTME - Literature In English - 2023

CYCLIST gets down and begins to prop his bicycle.
CYCLIST: All right. If you're sure it won't take long.
BARBER: I am known for my lightning clippers. Even the soldiers know me. I can shave the head of an entire battalion between one coup and the next. Sit down and relax your back. Cycling is not easy
when you've abandoned it for some time.
Wole Soyinka, The Beautification of Area Boy.

The literary devices in the dialogue above are

This question is based on BAT.

Use the excerpt to answer questions .
"Where light pushes through;
A sudden turning upon itself of a thing in the air.
A dip to the water.
And you think:
"The swallows are flying so late!"
Swallows?"

The dominant poetic device in the excerpt is___

This question is based on A GOVERNMENT DRIVER ON HIS RETIREMENT.

"Many years on wheels" The reference to "wheels" exemplifies the use of ___ in the poem.

Careened',
These oily tears
Dripping down the tears on your depressed face,
Will one day be staunched, I swear!
Ibiwari Ikiriko, Oily Tears.

The tone of the poet is

A tragic hero, according to the Aristotelian precept, must be a

The moment of recognition of truth when ignorance gives away to knowledge is known as

A Government Driver on His Retirement is a poem of thirty-three lines divided into _______ stanzas.

This question is based on SECOND CLASS CITIZEN.

"She swallowed it all, just like a nasty pill." The literary device employed here is

This question is based on THE LEADER AND THE LED.

" The hyena says the crown is made for him" in the above excerpt, the use of the word "crown " is a good deployment of ____

Jose Palacios, his oldest servant, found him floating naked with his eyes open in the purifying waters of his bath and thought he had drowned. He knew this was, one of the many ways the General meditated, but the ecstasy in which he lay drifting seemed that of a man no longer of this world.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, The General in His Labyrinth

The master in the passage above is obviously in a state of

A novel that features spiritual apparitions as major character is

'Fierce harmattan sun on innocent tendrils; torrential downpour on leaking thatch roofs; painful comfort of helpless eunuchs; thorny beauty of modern witches; the falcon's call on day-old-chicks, ours is tragi- comic dialogue:... mute echoes of pains' .

The sonority and rhythmical structure of the lines above are achieved through a pause- pattern called

A trilogy is the

An action in a play that stimulates the audience to pity a character is

A long story narrating a series of complicated events is called a

The use of two contrasting words that are placed side by side is called

The sides of a stage are called

When an object is invested with a meaning beyond its immediate reference, it becomes

"The sun used to smile in my hut".

The line is an example of

"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

This question is based on THE SONG OF THE WOMEN OF MY LAND.

Use the excerpt to answer questions

"they sang in the forlorn fields
about their lives; songs
of how they ploughed the terrain of their landscape
for memories of lyrics lost in the vast void of time,
in those days when a song beheld their lives;
when servitude cuffed the ankles of their soul,
and dereliction decapitated the epic of their lives."

The theme of this excerpt 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

A metrical pause occurring in the middle of a line in a poem is called

This question is based on CAGED BIRD.

Read this excerpt from the poem and answer questions .

"The free bird thinks of another
breeze / and the trade winds
soft through the sighing trees"

What is the effect of the trees sighing in this verse?

An extended fictional narrative which is realistic is known as a

*For seven days it rained that June;
A storm half out to sea kept turning around like a dog trying to settle himself on a rug; We were the fleas that
complained in his hair.
John Updike, Wash

The image set in the lines above are of

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

'Will college make you a better Olokun priest?
Will it make you serve our ancestors better?
Look at me. An able-bodied, strong-hearted priest of Olokun.
Did I go to college?
Gracy Osifo:Dizzy Angel

The literary device used in the passage above is

A formal dignified speech or writing praising or a thing for past or present deeds is

The exclusive right given to authors to protect their works from unlawful production is

When he gave me the bottle, and I opened it,
I was shocked by the odour that hit my nose:
I immediately corked it again, and spat on the floor..
Isidore Okpewho, The Last Duty.

The reaction in the passage above is that of

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

The poetic device used in this expression is____

Don't panic. Be calm. If you are somehow upset...try to regain your composure.

The speaker in the excerpt above is