JAMB Literature in English 2018 Past Questions

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

Characterisation in a novel refers to the _____?

In literacy work, verbal irony refers to a _________?

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_________?

Drama is the representation of a complete series of actions by means of _________

A poet‘s use of regular rhythm is known as _______?

A literacy genre which directly imitates human actions is______?

A fable is a story in which________?

The juxtaposition of two contrasting ideas in a line of poetry is_________?

The main aim of caricature is to_______?

The question is based on Richard Writer’s Native Son

Bigger kills Mary due to______?

The question is based on Richard Writer’s Native Son

Weekly, Bigger is to be paid_________?

The question is based on Bayo Adebowale's LONELY DAYS

In the novel, bage cape signifies everlasting ________?

The question is based on George Orwell's NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR

The novels draws a picture of______?

The question is based on Bayo Adebowale's LONELY DAYS

Yaremi's only son is______?

The question is based on George Orwell's NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR.

The power and oppression of an irresistible evil debased Winston’s dreams of________?

The question is based on George Orwell's NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR.

The novel can be described as__________?

The question is based on George Orwell's NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR.

Room 101 symbolises a place of________???

The question is based on J.P Clark's WIVES REVOLT.

In the play. the central idea is that gender equity_______?

The question is based on J.P Clark's WIVES REVOLT.

In their fight, the women settle at Iyara in order to_______?

The question is based on J.P Clark's WIVES REVOLT.

"Great Orators in the assembly, and poor nannies at home." Those being ridiculed here are the_________?

The question is based on J.P Clark's WIVES REVOLT.

"Those who have full breasts have walked out, and that leaves you, me, and the old girls returned_______

The question is based on J.P Clark's WIVES REVOLT.

The mutual exchange of abuse in the play is reminiscent of_________

The question is based on William’s Shakespeare’s OTHELLO

ill-starred wench: Pale as thy smoke; When we shall meet at compt" 
The device used in the line above is__________

The question is based on William’s Shakespeare’s OTHELLO

Othello kills Desdemona because the_______

The question is based on William’s Shakespeare’s OTHELLO

Brabantio is opposed to the relationship between Othello and Desdemona because_________

The question is based on William’s Shakespeare’s OTHELLO

"Soft you; a word or two before you go. I have done the state some service and they knew’ No more of

The question is based on William’s Shakespeare's OTHELLO

"O heaven; How got she out?
O treason of the blood!
Father; from hence trust not your daughters' minds
By what you see them act. Is there not charms
By which the property of youth and maid-hood
May be abused?


The speaker of the excerpt above is________

Use the following excerpt to answer the question.

And awake me. from my sweet dreams be lost,
Sucking blood from my poor head...
Mbure: "To Bed-Bug"

The lines are an example of a________?

Use the following excerpt to answer the question.

"I wonder how long, you awful parasites,
Shall share with me this little bed.
And awake me. from my sweet dreams be lost,
Sucking blood from my poor head...
Mbure: "To Bed-Bug"

The poet persona expresses dismay about________

Use the following excerpt to answer the question.

"I wonder how long, you awful parasites,
Shall share with me this little bed.
And awake me. from my sweet dreams be lost,
Sucking blood from my poor head...
Mbure: "To Bed-Bug"

The most dominant figure of speech in the excerpt is________

Your head is like a drum that is beaten for spirits
Yours ears are like the fans used for blowing fire.


The lines above are a good example of_________

How can I look at Oyo and say I hate long shiny cars? How can I come to the children and despise international schools? And Koomson comes; and the family sees Jesus Christ in him...


The feeling conveyed by the speaker above is one of_________

"Hide me now, when night children haunt the earth" Wole Soyinka: "Night". 

Night children in the stanza above reacts the consciousness of__________

Serrated Shadows, through dark leaves,
Till, bathed in warm suffusion of your dapped cells
sensation pained me, faceless, silent as night thieves
Wole Soyinka: "Night" 

The dominant mood in the lines above is one at____________

"The drum overwhelmed the guns..." J.P Stark: "Casualties"

The poet in the excerpt above uses

"... They do not see the funeral plies, At home eating up the forests..." J.P Clark: “Casualties"

The imagery created in the above excerpt is achieved through______

“I cannot rest from travel: I will drink, life to the lees, all times I have enjoyed greatly, have suffered greatly”. A.L. Tennyson: “Ulysses”

  The lines above inform the reader that the poet

He who writes a prose is a__________?

In drama, the protagonist is ________

Tension between the protagonist and the antagonist is called______

The phrase “living death” in a literary work is an example_____________

Group of lines are called _____

A literary device in which parts of a sentence are grammatically the same, or are similar in construction Is known as__________

How can I look at Oyo and say I hate long shiny cars? How can I come to the children and despise international schools? And Koomson comes; and the family sees Jesus Christ in him…

  The feeling conveyed by the speaker above is one of_____________

"Peter's pretty partner paid the bills" is an example of___________?

What does the playwright do?

Which of these is the meaning of “CAST”?

The writer of a poem is called__________?

This element shows how sections are separated into parts with numbers and titles_____________