The dominant literary device is

Literature in English

WAEC 2021

Read the extract below and answer questions9 to 11.

What happened to a dream deferred?

Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun?

Or fester like a sore

And then run?

Does it stink like rotten meat?

The dominant literary device is

A. the epithet
B. the rhetorical question
C. verbal irony
D. paradox

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Correct Answer: Option B

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