These questions are based on selected poems from Ker,D. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka,(ed.): Poems of Black Africa; Selection of African Poetry; Umukoro, M et al (eds.): Exam Focus: Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A,E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides and Nwoga, D.I. (eds.): West Africa Verse.
'With a running stream and a water-mill beating the darkness. And three trees on the low sky.'
In the excerpt above from Eliot's Journey of the Magi, the dominant literary device is
Personification is a literary device in which human qualities are given to non-human objects or elements of nature. In the excerpt:"With a running stream and a water-mill beating the darkness. And three trees on the low sky." The phrase "a water-mill beating the darkness" gives human-like action (beating) to the water-mill, which is an inanimate object. This is a clear example of personification.
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