JAMB Literature in English 1990 Question 38

A paradox is

1. A.applied to a word or combination of words whose sound resembles the sense
2. B.a statement which seems self-contradictory or absurd, yet turns out to have a valid meaning
3. C.an episode of pantomime introduced through gesture and bodily movement in a play
4. D.an elaborately conceived poem expressing an urban poet's nostalgia for life in the country.