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JAMB and WAEC Literature in English questions: Poetry: types and forms

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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 1· Poetry: types and forms· WAEC

    In poetry, an ode is

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  2. Question 2· Poetry: types and forms· WAEC

    A poem that mourns the dead is

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  3. Question 3· Poetry: types and forms· JAMB

    A lyric poem expresses

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  4. Question 4· Poetry: types and forms· JAMB

    A short poem expressing the poet's personal thoughts and feelings is a

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  5. Question 5· Poetry: types and forms· WAEC

    An epic is

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  6. Question 6· Poetry: types and forms· JAMB

    In concrete (shape) poetry, the words are arranged so that

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  7. Question 7· Poetry: types and forms· JAMB

    A haiku is a short poem of

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  8. Question 8· Poetry: types and forms· JAMB

    A villanelle has

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  9. Question 9· Poetry: types and forms· JAMB

    A humorous five-line poem with the rhyme scheme aabba is a

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  10. Question 10· Poetry: types and forms· JAMB

    A poem of fourteen lines with a fixed rhyme scheme is a

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  11. Question 11· Poetry: types and forms· JAMB

    A Petrarchan (Italian) sonnet is divided into

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  12. Question 12· Poetry: types and forms· JAMB

    A panegyric is

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  13. Question 13· Poetry: types and forms· JAMB

    Free verse is poetry that

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  14. Question 14· Poetry: types and forms· WAEC

    A humorous five-line poem rhyming AABBA is

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  15. Question 15· Poetry: types and forms· WAEC

    A sonnet has

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  16. Question 16· Poetry: types and forms· JAMB

    A Petrarchan sonnet is divided into

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  17. Question 17· Poetry: types and forms· WAEC

    A dirge is

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  18. Question 18· Poetry: types and forms· JAMB

    Traditional African oral poetry includes

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  19. Question 19· Poetry: types and forms· JAMB

    A pastoral poem idealises

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  20. Question 20· Poetry: types and forms· JAMB

    A Shakespearean sonnet ends with

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