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WAEC Literature in English 1999 Question 16

Question 16

Poetry: General

A sonnet is made up of a rhyming sestet and two

  1. A.rhyming couplets
  2. B.rhyming quatrains
  3. C.rhyming lines
  4. D.rhyming stanzas.
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Answer: B (rhyming quatrains)

Explanation

A Petrarchan sonnet has an octave (two quatrains, 8 lines) and a sestet (6 lines): 14 lines.