JAMB Literature in English 2022 Past Questions

One of the following writers is better known as  a playwright than as a novelist

 The plot of a novel is best described as

 A narrative poem must

Literature is studied as a subject at school  because

In The Flight to Australia', the following line occurs: 'Tier upon tier it towered, the terrible Apennines'. The figure of speech used in this line is known as

If we describe Kossoh Town Boy as an autobiography, we mean that it is

You cannot know
 And should not bother;
Tide and market come and go And so shall your mother.
In this verse the poet uses

The Comstocks belonged to the most dismal of all classes, the middle-middle class, the landless gentry. In their miserable poverty, they had not even the snobbish consolation of regarding themselves as an "old" family fallen on evil days. The writer's tone is _______

Another shoal of cars swam past.
One, in particular, caught his eyes, a long slender thing,
elegant as a swallow, all gleaming blue and silver;
a thousand guineas it would have cos, he thought.

In the first sentence, cars are described in terms of 

Pick out the odd item 

An image in poetry usually gives a clue to one of the following

That year the harvest was sad, like a funeral, and many farmers wept as they dug up the miserable yams. One man tied his cloth to a tree branch and hanged himself. The mood conveyed here is one of _____

One of the following terms applies to the discussion of both tragedy and comedy