'Will college make you a better Olokun priest?
Will it make you serve our ancestors better?
Look at me. An able-bodied, strong-hearted priest of Olokun.
Did I go to college?
Gracy Osifo:Dizzy Angel

The literary device used in the passage above is

This question is based on RAIDER OF THE TREASURE TROVE.

"To fly flags of joy" Two figures of speech used here are

This question is based on THE SONG OF THE WOMEN OF MY LAND.

Use the excerpt to answer this question

"they sang in the forlorn fields
about their lives; songs
of how they ploughed the terrain of their landscape
for memories of lyrics lost in the vast void of time,
in those days when a song beheld their lives;
when servitude cuffed the ankles of their soul,
and dereliction decapitated the epic of their lives."

The theme of this excerpt is____
 

Jose Palacios, his oldest servant, found him floating naked with his eyes open in the purifying waters of his bath and thought he had drowned. He knew this was, one of the many ways the General meditated, but the ecstasy in which he lay drifting seemed that of a man no longer of this world.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, The General in His Labyrinth

The master in the passage above is obviously in a state of

A metrical pause occurring in the middle of a line in a poem is called