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A structural arrangement of unit of composition by which one element of equal importance with another is similarly placed is called

  • A. repetition
  • B. paradox
  • C. refrain
  • D. parallelism
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This question is based on CAGED BIRD.
"for the caged bird/sings of freedom.",

The poetic device used in this expression is____

  • A. metaphor
  • B. irony
  • C. hyperbole
  • D. paradox
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'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

  • A. onomatopoeia
  • B. parallelism
  • C. metaphor
  • D. simile
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This question is based on RAIDER OF THE TREASURE TROVE.

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

  • A. alliteration and personification
  • B. onomatopoeia and simile
  • C. metaphor and alliteration
  • D. simile and personification
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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____
 

  • A. All of the above
  • B. the oppression of women
  • C. Joys of motherhood
  • D. colonization
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