JAMB Literature in English · Literary Appreciation
Unseen passages/extracts: JAMB Literature in English Past Questions and Answers
What the JAMB syllabus covers in Unseen passages/extracts
Our summary: Finding the devices in an unseen passage or extract of drama, prose or poetry and interpreting it.
- Unseen passages/extracts from Drama, Prose and Poetry.
Objectives
- identify literary devices used in a given passage/extract;
- provide an interpretation of the given passage/extract;
- relate the extract to true life experiences.
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JAMB Literature in English questions on Unseen passages/extracts
- JAMB 2023Careened', These oily tears Dripping down the tears on your depressed face, Will one day be staunched, I swear! Ibiwari Ikiriko, Oily Tears. The tone of the…
- JAMB 2022You cannot know And should not bother Tide and market come and go And so shall your mother In this verse the poet uses
- JAMB 2022That 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…
- JAMB 2022Another 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…
- JAMB 2022In 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
- JAMB 2018How 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…
- JAMB 2016This question is based on General Literary Appreciation. Weep not child, weep not my darling With these kisses let me remove your tears The ravening clouds…
- JAMB 2016This question is based on General Literary Appreciation. 'Women as a clam, on the sea's crescent I saw your jealous eye quench the sea's Fluorescence, dance on…
- JAMB 2015This question is based on Literary Appreciation. That age is best which the first is. When youth and blood are Warner; But being spent, the worse , and worst…
- JAMB 2015This question is based on Literary Appreciation. The old man slept in his favorite chair The wind ran its fingers through his hair He looked like a tree gone…
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