Literary terms - Jamb Literature in English Past Questions and Answers

Question 36:

• JAMB 2018

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

A. Characteristics
B. Allegory
C. Metaphor
D. Parallelism

Question 37:

• JAMB 2018

In literacy work, verbal irony refers to a _________?

A. Device in which the speaker means the opposite of what he says
B. Situation in which a character speaks or acts against the tread of events
C. Difficult situation which defies a local or rational resolution
D. Device in which the actor on stage

Question 38:

• JAMB 2018

In the theatre, words spoken by a character that are meant to be heard by the audience but not by the other characters on stage is called_________?

A. Aside
B. Soliloquy
C. Acoustic
D. Tone

Question 39:

• JAMB 2017

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 ________?

A. Allusion
B. Juxtaposition
C. Symbolism
D. Memoir

Question 40:

• JAMB 2017

"I can stand well enough and I speak well enough". The excerpt above exemplifies ___ ?

A. Synedole
B. Euphemism
C. Repetition
D. Irony