JAMB Literature in English · Drama
Types of drama: JAMB Literature in English Past Questions and Answers
What the JAMB syllabus covers in Types of drama
Our summary: The main kinds of play, such as tragedy, comedy and farce, and the features that set each apart.
- Tragedy
- Comedy
- Tragicomedy
- Melodrama
- Farce
- Opera etc.
Objectives
- identify the various types of drama;
- analyse the contents of the various types of drama;
- compare and contrast the features of different types of drama.
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JAMB Literature in English questions on Types of drama
- JAMB 2024The question is based on Wole Soyinka's The Lion and the Jewel The play is a
- JAMB 2023The overwhelming pride that destroys the tragic hero is called
- JAMB 2023A tragic hero, according to the Aristotelian precept, must be a
- JAMB 2023The tragic character is the person whose experiences arouse pity and
- JAMB 2022A hero whose weakness contributes to his downfall is called?
- JAMB 2022An irredeemable reversal of the hero's fortune in a tragedy is called.
- JAMB 2022One of the following writers is better known as a playwright than as a novelist
- JAMB 2022One of the following terms applies to the discussion of both tragedy and comedy
- JAMB 2021This question is based on General Literary Principles. A melodramatic play is based on
- JAMB 2021A play in which the acts succeed one another without probable or necessary sequence is
- JAMB 2021A band of singers and dancers in drama who acts as a link between the play and the audience is the
- JAMB 2019Fatalism is crucial element in …
- JAMB 2019A dramatic type directed against an individual or a private institute with the intent to severely ridicule is called …
- JAMB 2018A literacy genre which directly imitates human actions is … ?
- JAMB 2018What does the playwright do?
- JAMB 2018Drama is the representation of a complete series of actions by means of …
- JAMB 2016This question is based on General Literary Principles. An art that is both literary and theatrical is
- JAMB 2015Plays are basically meant to be
- JAMB 2015This question is based on General literacy principles A literary genre which directly imitates human action is
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