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All topicsDrama: types and elements · 29Dramatic techniques · 37Figures of speech · 35General literary terms · 33Literary appreciation: unseen poetry · 24Literary appreciation: unseen prose · 24Poetry: imagery, sound and structure · 27Poetry: types and forms · 23Point of view and narrative techniques · 21Prose: plot, setting and characterisation · 22Prose: types of fiction · 20

  1. Question 21· Drama: types and elements· JAMB

    Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot is an example of

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  2. Question 22· Drama: types and elements· JAMB

    A comedy of manners satirises

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  3. Question 23· Drama: types and elements· JAMB

    The resolution of a play is also called the

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  4. Question 24· Drama: types and elements· JAMB

    A one-act play differs from a full-length play mainly in

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  5. Question 25· Drama: types and elements· JAMB

    Aristotle's three unities in drama are the unities of

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  6. Question 26· Drama: types and elements· JAMB

    A melodrama is characterised by

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  7. Question 27· Drama: types and elements· JAMB

    A short, light dramatic piece performed between the acts of a longer play is an

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  8. Question 28· Drama: types and elements· JAMB

    Traditional African folk drama often combines

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  9. Question 29· Drama: types and elements· JAMB

    A full-length play is usually divided into

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  10. Question 30· Dramatic techniques· JAMB

    Lines marked '(aside)' in a play script are meant to be

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  11. Question 31· Dramatic techniques· JAMB

    An introductory speech or scene before the main action of a play is the

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  12. Question 32· Dramatic techniques· JAMB

    A play within a play is used to

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  13. Question 33· Dramatic techniques· JAMB

    A soliloquy is a speech in which a character

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  14. Question 34· Dramatic techniques· JAMB

    In drama, dialogue is

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  15. Question 35· Dramatic techniques· JAMB

    A long speech by one character addressed to other characters on stage is a

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  16. Question 36· Dramatic techniques· JAMB

    Read the extract below and answer the question. (An AdmitMe scene. The palace courtyard. CHIEF OKORO sits among his ELDERS.) CHIEF OKORO: (rising) Who dares to speak of tax in my palace? ADA: (stepping forward) I dare, Chief. The market women have paid three times this year, and still the road to the market is a river of mud. CHIEF OKORO: (laughing, to the elders) Listen to her! A woman who sells pepper now teaches the elders how to rule. ELDER IKE: (aside) The pepper seller's words are hotter than her goods. ADA: Laugh, Chief. But when the rains come and your car sinks on that road, you will remember who told you.

    Ada's statement that 'the road to the market is a river of mud' is an example of

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  17. Question 37· Dramatic techniques· JAMB

    Read the extract below and answer the question. (An AdmitMe scene. The palace courtyard. CHIEF OKORO sits among his ELDERS.) CHIEF OKORO: (rising) Who dares to speak of tax in my palace? ADA: (stepping forward) I dare, Chief. The market women have paid three times this year, and still the road to the market is a river of mud. CHIEF OKORO: (laughing, to the elders) Listen to her! A woman who sells pepper now teaches the elders how to rule. ELDER IKE: (aside) The pepper seller's words are hotter than her goods. ADA: Laugh, Chief. But when the rains come and your car sinks on that road, you will remember who told you.

    In the extract, Elder Ike's line is

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  18. Question 38· Dramatic techniques· JAMB

    Peripeteia in tragedy is

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  19. Question 39· Dramatic techniques· JAMB

    Instructions in a play script about movement, setting and tone of voice are called

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  20. Question 40· Dramatic techniques· JAMB

    Read the extract and answer the question. [A small tailoring shop. Sewing machines hum. MAMA NGOZI pins a gown on a dummy. CHIDI, her apprentice, rushes in, out of breath.] CHIDI: Madam, the chairman's wife is coming herself! MAMA NGOZI: (without looking up) Then let her come on her feet like everybody else. CHIDI: But the gown is not ready. She will shout the roof down. MAMA NGOZI: A roof that falls from shouting was never a roof. Bring me the blue thread. CHIDI: (searching frantically) There is no blue thread, Madam. Only green. MAMA NGOZI: (finally turning) Then today, my son, the sky will be green. [Enter MRS OKAFOR, fanning herself with a large hat.] MRS OKAFOR: Ngozi! Is my gown ready, or must I attend the launching in my night dress? MAMA NGOZI: (smiling sweetly) Madam, a beautiful woman makes any cloth look like a gown. (An original extract written for AdmitMe practice.)

    The stage direction '(without looking up)' suggests that Mama Ngozi is

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