Literary principles - Jamb Literature in English Past Questions and Answers

Question 66:

• JAMB 1987

Caricature is used to

A. Ridicule a person by distorting his most prominent features
B. Censure an individual by emphasizing his weakness
C. Expose the folly in literature
D. Elicit the artistic potential of dramatists.

Question 67:

• JAMB 1987

Any work of literature which sets out to instruct may be called

A. Dialetic
B. Decadent
C. Definitive
D. Didactic.

Question 68:

• JAMB 1987

An ode is best described as a

A. Story told in poetic from
B. Poetic composition of fourteen lines
C. Narration about nature and natural objects
D. Lyrical poem addressed to some persons things

Question 69:

• JAMB 1987

A couplet is a

A. Succession of three rhyming lines
B. Succession of two rhyming lines
C. Poem of two stanzas
D. Poem of three stanzas

Question 70:

• JAMB 1987

A sonnet is a poem of

A. Fourteen lines
B. Ten lines
C. Seven stanzas
D. Six stanzas