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All topicsDrama: types and elements · 38Dramatic techniques · 44Figures of speech · 44General literary terms · 40Literary appreciation: unseen poetry · 29Literary appreciation: unseen prose · 29Poetry: imagery, sound and structure · 34Poetry: types and forms · 30Point of view and narrative techniques · 27Prose: plot, setting and characterisation · 29Prose: types of fiction · 26Set poems: African poetry · 10Set poems: Non-African poetry · 17Set text: A Man for All Seasons (Robert Bolt) · 9Set text: An Inspector Calls (J. B. Priestley) · 10Set text: Antony and Cleopatra (Shakespeare) · 13Set text: The Marriage of Anansewa (Efua Sutherland) · 4Set text: To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee) · 14

  1. Question 221· Literary appreciation: unseen prose· WAEC

    Mama Nkechi opened her shop before the first cock had finished crowing. She swept the doorway with short, angry strokes, as though the dust had insulted her personally. Across the road, the new supermarket glowed behind its glass, its shelves as orderly as soldiers on parade. Customers who had bought her groundnut oil for twenty years now walked past with their eyes fixed on their phones. Still, every morning she arranged her tins in a careful pyramid and waited, because waiting, she said, was also a kind of work. (An original passage written for AdmitMe practice.)

    The passage is narrated in the

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  2. Question 222· Literary appreciation: unseen prose· JAMB

    Read the passage and answer the question. The bus to Jos had been waiting for two hours, and still the conductor shouted, 'One chance! One chance!' as though the seats were not already groaning under three passengers each. Halima pressed her bag of groundnuts against her knees and watched an old man argue with a goat that had climbed onto the luggage rack. Nobody laughed. Laughter, like water, was being saved for the long road ahead. When the engine finally coughed itself awake, a cheer rose from the passengers, the kind of cheer usually reserved for a winning goal. Halima did not cheer. She was thinking of the letter in her pocket, the one she had not yet found the courage to read. (An original passage written for AdmitMe practice.)

    The final sentence of the passage creates

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  3. Question 223· Literary appreciation: unseen prose· JAMB

    Read the passage and answer the question. Obinna had promised himself that he would not look back at the bus park. Yet as the bus pulled away from Ninth Mile, groaning like an old man climbing stairs, he turned and saw his mother still standing by the roadside, her wrapper flapping in the dust. He had always thought leaving would feel like flying. Instead it felt like a rope being slowly pulled from his hands, inch by inch, until only the burn remained. (An original passage written for AdmitMe practice.)

    The image of a rope 'being slowly pulled from his hands' expresses

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  4. Question 224· Literary appreciation: unseen prose· WAEC

    Mama Nkechi opened her shop before the first cock had finished crowing. She swept the doorway with short, angry strokes, as though the dust had insulted her personally. Across the road, the new supermarket glowed behind its glass, its shelves as orderly as soldiers on parade. Customers who had bought her groundnut oil for twenty years now walked past with their eyes fixed on their phones. Still, every morning she arranged her tins in a careful pyramid and waited, because waiting, she said, was also a kind of work. (An original passage written for AdmitMe practice.)

    The main conflict in the passage is between

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  5. Question 225· Poetry: imagery, sound and structure· JAMB

    Consonance is the repetition of

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  6. Question 226· Poetry: imagery, sound and structure· JAMB

    Iambic pentameter consists of

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  7. Question 227· Poetry: imagery, sound and structure· WAEC

    The repetition of initial consonant sounds, as in 'the bright beautiful bird', is

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  8. Question 228· Poetry: imagery, sound and structure· JAMB

    Enjambment is

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  9. Question 229· Poetry: imagery, sound and structure· JAMB

    A refrain is

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  10. Question 230· Poetry: imagery, sound and structure· JAMB

    The running on of a sentence from one line of verse into the next without a pause is

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  11. Question 231· Poetry: imagery, sound and structure· JAMB

    A sestet is a stanza of

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  12. Question 232· Poetry: imagery, sound and structure· WAEC

    Iambic pentameter has

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  13. Question 233· Poetry: imagery, sound and structure· WAEC

    The pattern of rhymes at the ends of lines in a poem is its

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  14. Question 234· Poetry: imagery, sound and structure· JAMB

    An iamb is a metrical foot of

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  15. Question 235· Poetry: imagery, sound and structure· JAMB

    In 'The cat sat on the mat', the words 'cat', 'sat' and 'mat' create

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  16. Question 236· Poetry: imagery, sound and structure· JAMB

    A tercet is a stanza of

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  17. Question 237· Poetry: imagery, sound and structure· WAEC

    A group of lines that forms a unit in a poem is

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  18. Question 238· Poetry: imagery, sound and structure· JAMB

    A trochee is

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  19. Question 239· Poetry: imagery, sound and structure· JAMB

    A line or group of lines repeated at intervals in a poem, often at the end of stanzas, is a

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  20. Question 240· Poetry: imagery, sound and structure· JAMB

    A caesura is

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