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JAMB Literature in English questions: Dramatic techniques

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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· 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.

    Chief Okoro's attitude to Ada in the extract is

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  2. Question 22· Dramatic techniques· JAMB

    Read the extract and answer the question. [A village square at dusk. BABA ALAO sits on a stool. KEMI enters with a bucket.] BABA ALAO: You walk as if the ground owes you money. KEMI: (setting the bucket down) The ground owes nobody, Baba. It is the borehole that owes us water. BABA ALAO: In my day we drank from the stream and thanked the gods. KEMI: In your day the stream did not carry the factory's colours. BABA ALAO: (aside) The child speaks like her mother, sharp as a new cutlass. KEMI: Tomorrow the women will march to the council. Will you come? BABA ALAO: (rising slowly) An old tortoise does not race. But it arrives. (An original extract written for AdmitMe practice.)

    The main problem raised in the extract is

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  3. Question 23· 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.

    Elder Ike's remark contains a pun on the word

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  4. Question 24· Dramatic techniques· JAMB

    Deus ex machina refers to

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  5. Question 25· Dramatic techniques· JAMB

    A speech in which a character alone on stage speaks his thoughts aloud is a

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  6. Question 26· Dramatic techniques· JAMB

    Read the extract and answer the question. [A village square at dusk. BABA ALAO sits on a stool. KEMI enters with a bucket.] BABA ALAO: You walk as if the ground owes you money. KEMI: (setting the bucket down) The ground owes nobody, Baba. It is the borehole that owes us water. BABA ALAO: In my day we drank from the stream and thanked the gods. KEMI: In your day the stream did not carry the factory's colours. BABA ALAO: (aside) The child speaks like her mother, sharp as a new cutlass. KEMI: Tomorrow the women will march to the council. Will you come? BABA ALAO: (rising slowly) An old tortoise does not race. But it arrives. (An original extract written for AdmitMe practice.)

    'sharp as a new cutlass' is an example of

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  7. Question 27· 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.)

    Mama Ngozi's reply 'Then let her come on her feet like everybody else' shows that she is

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  8. Question 28· Dramatic techniques· JAMB

    Read the extract and answer the question. [A village square at dusk. BABA ALAO sits on a stool. KEMI enters with a bucket.] BABA ALAO: You walk as if the ground owes you money. KEMI: (setting the bucket down) The ground owes nobody, Baba. It is the borehole that owes us water. BABA ALAO: In my day we drank from the stream and thanked the gods. KEMI: In your day the stream did not carry the factory's colours. BABA ALAO: (aside) The child speaks like her mother, sharp as a new cutlass. KEMI: Tomorrow the women will march to the council. Will you come? BABA ALAO: (rising slowly) An old tortoise does not race. But it arrives. (An original extract written for AdmitMe practice.)

    Baba Alao's remark 'You walk as if the ground owes you money' suggests that Kemi is walking

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  9. Question 29· 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.

    The main conflict in the extract is between

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  10. Question 30· Dramatic techniques· JAMB

    Comic relief in a tragedy is

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  11. Question 31· Dramatic techniques· JAMB

    When the audience knows something that a character on stage does not know, the playwright is using

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  12. Question 32· 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.)

    Chidi functions in the extract mainly as

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  13. Question 33· Dramatic techniques· JAMB

    A chorus in traditional drama

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  14. Question 34· Dramatic techniques· JAMB

    An epilogue is

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  15. Question 35· Dramatic techniques· JAMB

    In drama, characters are revealed mainly through

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  16. Question 36· 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.)

    'A roof that falls from shouting was never a roof' is an example of

    Explanation and discussion

  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.

    Ada's last speech suggests that

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