WAEC Literature in English 2021 Objective — Question 23

Question 23 of 50 from the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) Literature in English 2021 Objective paper, with the correct answer and a full explanation.

23. The dominant literary device in the passage is

A. personification.
B. antithesis.
C. litotes.
D. parallelism.Correct

Explanation

The passage repeats sentence structures beginning with 'why', 'or why', and 'and' — a repetition of structure known as parallelism.

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