'Serrating down your back and front
Like beak of the sword-fish,
And both your ears, notched
As a bondsman to this house...'

The dominant figure of speech in the above lines from J.P. Clark's 'Abiku' is

'... like some fish
Doped out of the deep
I have bobbed up bellywise
From stream of sleep'.
The above lines from 'Night Rain' are intended to emphasize the fact that the speaker

In Soyinka's 'Abiku', the statement, 'The ripest fruit was saddest', is an example of

When David Diop in 'The Vultures' says that 'civilization kicked us in the face' and 'holy water slapped our cringing brows', he is using

The mood expressed in 'We Have Come Home' by Lenrie Peters is that of