JAMB Literature in English 2019 Question 8

Question 8

Non-African Poetry

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day is an example of

  1. A.sonnet
  2. B.sestet
  3. C.quatrain
  4. D.octave
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Answer: A (sonnet)

Explanation

It is Shakespeare's Sonnet 18, a fourteen-line poem.