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JAMB Literature in English · Drama

Dramatic techniques: JAMB Literature in English Past Questions and Answers

What the JAMB syllabus covers in Dramatic techniques

Our summary: The tools a playwright uses, from characters and dialogue to costume, scenery, acts and soliloquies.

  • Characterisation
  • Dialogue
  • Flashback
  • Mime
  • Costume
  • Music/Dance
  • Décor/scenery
  • Acts/Scenes
  • Soliloquy/aside
  • Figures of Speech

Objectives

  • demonstrate adequate knowledge of dramatic techniques and stage directions used in each prescribed text;
  • differentiate between styles of selected playwrights;

Syllabus content © The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (UTME).

JAMB Literature in English questions on Dramatic techniques

  1. JAMB 2025This question is based on Wole Soyinka's The Lion and the Jewel. No one? Do you mean there was no one To bar unwanted strangers from my privacy?
  2. JAMB 2025This novel is based on John Osborne's Look Back in Anger The bear in the novel symbolically represents
  3. JAMB 2024This question is based on John Osbourne's Look Back in Anger The protagonist in the play is
  4. JAMB 2024This question is based on John Osborne's Look Back in Anger. Jimmy's harmatia is
  5. JAMB 2023This question is based on THE LION AND THE JEWEL. The indication that Soyinka's "The Lion and the Jewel" is culturally set is its use of …
  6. JAMB 2023An action in a play that stimulates the audience to pity a character is
  7. JAMB 2023Dramatis personae in a play refers to
  8. JAMB 2023The sides of a stage are called
  9. JAMB 2023A character that is always against the interest of the protagonist is
  10. JAMB 2023Cast in a play refers to
  11. JAMB 2022A character that is always against the interest of the protagonist is
  12. JAMB 2022Dramatis personae in a play refers to
  13. JAMB 2022Empathy is achieved when the audience
  14. JAMB 2021This question is based on Femi Osofisan's Morountodun. The re-enactment of the Moremi legend in the play can be described as
  15. JAMB 2021This question is based on J.P Clark's The Wives Revolt. Characterization in the play is
  16. JAMB 2021A situation where an actor addresses the audience without the other actors hearing him is called
  17. JAMB 2021A band of singers and dancers in drama who acts as a link between the play and the audience is the
  18. JAMB 2021A technique by which a previous scene or action can be recalled in a play to shed light on the present action is
  19. JAMB 2019The characterisation of Othello maybe pointed out in that …
  20. JAMB 2019… is used to describe the situation where a character recognize his mistake
  21. JAMB 2018A “chapter” in a piece of drama is a
  22. JAMB 2018An act of speaking one’s thought aloud by oneself, regardless of any hearer, in a play is known as …
  23. JAMB 2018In drama, the antagonist is …
  24. JAMB 2018In drama, the protagonist is …
  25. JAMB 2018The question is based on William’s Shakespeare’s OTHELLO ill-starred wench: Pale as thy smoke; When we shall meet at comp" The device used in the line above is…
  26. JAMB 2018In 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 … ?
  27. JAMB 2018Which element of drama tells the actor what to do?
  28. JAMB 2018A “sub-chapter” in a piece of drama is a …
  29. JAMB 2018Which of these is the meaning of “CAST”?
  30. JAMB 2018The 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 …
  31. JAMB 2016This question is based on General Literary Principles. In a tragic play the device used to reduce tension is known as
  32. JAMB 2016This question is based on General Literary Principles. The speech made by a character to himself on stage is
  33. JAMB 2015This question is based on William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. In Romeo and Juliet, the major role of Mercutio is to
  34. JAMB 2015This question is based on William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. What can you infer about Benvolio based on his interaction with Romeo and parents
  35. JAMB 2015In drama, the use of gestures to communicate is known as

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