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📚 JAMB Literature in English study notes

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1. 1Drama: types and forms

   tragedy, comedy, tragicomedy, farce and melodrama · features of each
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2. 2Dramatic techniques

   dialogue, soliloquy, aside, dramatic irony, chorus, flashback
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3. 3Prose forms

   novel, novella, short story, fable, autobiography · features of each
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4. 4Narrative techniques

   point of view, narrator types, plot structure, suspense and foreshadowing
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5. 5Poetry: types and forms

   sonnet, ode, elegy, ballad, lyric, epic, free verse
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6. 6Poetic devices

   imagery, rhyme scheme, rhythm and metre, alliteration, assonance, enjambment
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7. 7Figures of speech in literature

   metaphor, simile, personification, apostrophe, oxymoron, paradox, irony
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8. 8General literary terms

   theme, tone, mood, setting, characterisation, conflict, satire
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9. 9Literary appreciation: unseen prose

   interpret a short prose extract · identify devices, tone and meaning
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10. 10Literary appreciation: unseen poetry

    interpret a short poem extract · identify devices, tone and meaning
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11. 11African prose

    themes common in African novels (colonialism, tradition, change, corruption)
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12. 12Non-African prose

    themes and techniques in classic novels and short stories
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13. 13African drama

    themes and techniques in African plays · use of folklore and ritual
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14. 14Non-African drama including Shakespeare

    tragic hero, plot conventions, dramatic structure
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15. 15African poetry

    themes of identity, culture, protest and nature
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16. 16Non-African poetry

    themes and techniques in English and world poetry
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17. 17Characterisation

    round and flat characters · protagonist, antagonist, foil
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18. 18Setting, theme and plot

    exposition, rising action, climax, resolution · relationship of setting to theme
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