JAMB - Literature In English (1990 - No. 35)

This question is based on General Literature Principles and Literary Appreciation.
A paradox is

applied to a word or combination of words whose sound resembles the sense

a statement which seems self-contraditory or absurd, yet turns out to have a valid meaning

an episode of pantomime introduced through gesture and bodily movement in a play

an elaborately conceived poem expressing an urban poet's nostalgia for life in the country