WAEC Literature in English 2014 Objective — Question 9

Question 9 of 50 from the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) Literature in English 2014 Objective paper, with the correct answer and a full explanation.

The term used to depict the freedom of a poet with language is

A. poetic diction
B. bathos
C. graphology
D. poetic licenseCorrect

Explanation

Poetic license is used to depict the freedom of a poet, allowing deliberate violation of grammatical rules for rhetoric/semantic effect.

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