Jamb Literature In English Past Questions For Year 2016
Question 36
This question is based on General Literary Principles.
In a tragic play the device used to reduce tension is known as
- A. comic relief
- B. rhetoric
- C. anti-climax
- D. climax
Question 37
Hallowell's The Dining Table can be referred to as a
- A. traditional poem
- B. a lyric
- C. dramatic monologue
- D. ballad
Question 38
The dominant literary device in Diop's Vanity is
- A. rhetorical question
- B. allusion
- C. hyperbole
- D. dramatic irony
Question 39
This question is based on General Literary Principles.
What sustains the interest of a reader in all literature is
- A. ambiguity
- B. characterization
- C. suspense
- D. plot
Question 40
This question is based on General Literary Principles.
A paragraph in prose is equivalent to a
- A. verse in poetry
- B. stanza in poetry
- C. metre in poetry
- D. trope in poetry
