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Literary Devices Video Lesson.
Literary Devices JAMB Past Question Practice
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1. In ‘I Will Pronounce Your Name’Senghor writes:’Naett that is the dry tornado,the clap of lightening’.
The figure of speech used in the above line is
- A. metaphor
- B. simile
- C. hyperbole
- D. irony
- E. synedoche
2. In ‘The Flight to Australia’ the following line occurs:’Tier upon tier it towered,the terrible Apennines’ The figure of speech used in this line is known as
- A. alliteration
- B. litotes
- C. exaggeration
- D. parody
- E. metonym
3. In literacy work, verbal irony refers to a _________?
- A. device in which the speaker means the opposite of what he says
- B. situation in which a character speaks or acts against the tread of events
- C. difficult situation which defies a local or rational resolution
- D. device in which the actor act on stage
4. A poet‘s use of regular rhythm is known as _______?
- A. allegory
- B. assonance
- C. metre
- D. onomatopoeia
5. A literacy genre which directly imitates human actions is______?
- A. Drama
- B. comedy
- C. Prose
- D. Poetry