Concept:Classifying Niyi Osundare's poem "The Leader and the Led" by its dominant literary mode.
Explanation:The poem is satiric because it ridicules the shortcomings of leaders and followers in post-colonial Africa, particularly Nigeria.
Osundare mocks those in power who place selfish interests above the common good.
He employs animal comparisons to make the criticism vivid and memorable.
The aim of the satire is corrective, to make both leaders and followers reflect on their failures.
It cannot be dramatic, as it lacks theatrical action and stage dialogue.
It is not narrative, because no sequence of events is told.
It is not elegaic, as it expresses no mournful lament for the dead.
The poem's ironic and critical tone clearly marks it as satire.
Answer:B. satiric