This question is based on Literary Principles.
'So Children,
If per chance you see a here that roars
Or an ape perched in a palanquin,
Look on in silence..'
'Africa by David Diop
This excerpt exemplifies
poetic climax
rhetoric
paradox
conflict
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This excerpt from David Diop's "Africa" portrays unnatural, absurd scenes—a roaring hare and an ape in a palanquin—to evoke the strange, paradoxical, and unjust nature of colonial rule. The imagery creates a, by presenting contradictory or impossible situations (a puny hare roaring) to highlight the surreal distortions of oppression.
C. Paradox is the correct literary device used to describe these contradictions.
The lines emphasize a surreal, distorted reality under colonialism, where natural order is reversed, forming a central paradox in the poem's critique.
The poem uses this, alongside personification, to express the absurdity and pain of the colonial experience.
