Post Utme Literature in English Past Questions and Answers

Question 61:

"The piercing chill I feel, My dead wife's comb in our bedroom Under my heel"(trans. By Harold Henderson) What is the form of the above poem?

A. Haiku
B. Triplet
C. Tercet
D. Quatrain

Question 62:

A sonnet is a poem of ____________ lines

A. 15
B. 14
C. 16
D. 12

Question 63:

A stanza of three lines linked by rhyme is called a ____________

A. Couplet
B. Ballad
C. Tercet
D. Quatrain

Question 64:

From David Rubadiri's "An African Thunderstorm" "Clouds come hurrying with the wind" contains an example of ____________

A. Alliteration
B. Assonance
C. Enjambment
D. Rhyme

Question 65:

In poetry, double rhyme can be used to bring out ____________

A. Irony
B. Unity
C. Theme
D. Conclusion