This question is based on Wole Soyinka's The Lion and the Jewel.

.....Aha! Here comes Sadiku
Do you bring some balm
To soothe the smart of my misused armpit
Away, your enemy!'
What is the nature of the balm referred to by the speaker?

This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa and D.I Nwoga (ed) West African Verse.


Kwesi Brew's 'The Dry Season' shows that

This question is based on General Literary Principles and Literary Appreciation.

'Hee, thou great Anna! whom three realms obey,
Dost sometimes counsel take - and sometimes tea.'
The literary device used in this passage is

This question is based on General Literary Principles and Literary Appreciation.

In the morning Benjamin complained of a headache; at noon he collapsed; by midnight he was as dead and cold as a stone.
The dominant literary device in the above statement is