JAMB Literature in English questions: Dramatic techniques

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

Question 1· Dramatic techniques· JAMB
Lines marked '(aside)' in a play script are meant to be
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Question 2· Dramatic techniques· JAMB
An introductory speech or scene before the main action of a play is the
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Question 3· Dramatic techniques· JAMB
A play within a play is used to
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Question 4· Dramatic techniques· JAMB
A soliloquy is a speech in which a character
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Question 5· Dramatic techniques· JAMB
In drama, dialogue is
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Question 6· Dramatic techniques· JAMB
A long speech by one character addressed to other characters on stage is a
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Question 7· 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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Question 8· 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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Question 9· Dramatic techniques· JAMB
Peripeteia in tragedy is
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Question 10· Dramatic techniques· JAMB
Instructions in a play script about movement, setting and tone of voice are called
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Question 11· 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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Question 12· Dramatic techniques· JAMB
The chorus in Greek drama
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Question 13· 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 final remark to Mrs Okafor is best described as
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Question 14· 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 stage direction '(aside)' shows that Baba Alao's words are
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Question 15· 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 overall tone of the extract is
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Question 16· 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.)
Mrs Okafor's question about attending 'in my night dress' is an example of
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Question 17· 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 line 'Then today, my son, the sky will be green' reveals Mama Ngozi's
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Question 18· Dramatic techniques· JAMB
Anagnorisis is the moment when
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Question 19· Dramatic techniques· JAMB
A brief remark a character makes to the audience, supposedly unheard by others on stage, is an
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Question 20· 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 last line suggests that he will
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JAMB Literature in English questions: Dramatic techniques

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

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

A play within a play is used to

A soliloquy is a speech in which a character

In drama, dialogue is

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

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

In the extract, Elder Ike's line is

Peripeteia in tragedy is

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

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

The chorus in Greek drama

Mama Ngozi's final remark to Mrs Okafor is best described as

The stage direction '(aside)' shows that Baba Alao's words are

The overall tone of the extract is

Mrs Okafor's question about attending 'in my night dress' is an example of

The line 'Then today, my son, the sky will be green' reveals Mama Ngozi's

Anagnorisis is the moment when

A brief remark a character makes to the audience, supposedly unheard by others on stage, is an

Baba Alao's last line suggests that he will