Versification in drama and poetry - Jamb Literature in English Past Questions and Answers

Question 16:

• 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 17:

• JAMB 1987

A sonnet is a poem of

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

Question 18:

• JAMB 1988

This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.A play is called a comedy when

A. There is peaceful atmosphere and laughter in it
B. Nobody dies in it
C. There is no serious quarrel in it
D. There is a happy resolution of contradictions

Question 19:

• JAMB 1988

This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.A from of writing in which the poet writes with nostalgia about simple village life is

A. Pastoral
B. Ballad
C. Romance
D. Epic

Question 20:

• JAMB 1988

This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.An imitation, bordering on ridicule of an author's style and ideas is know as

A. Mime
B. Paradox
C. Criticism
D. Parody