WAEC Literature in English 2024 Objective — Question 17

Question 17 of 50 from the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) Literature in English 2024 Objective paper, with the correct answer and a full explanation.

17. (The curl of my lips, the swing of my waist, / The ride of my breast, the stride of my steps, / Flash of my tech and the palm of my hand) The line is an example of A.

A. euphemism.
B. parallelism.Correct
C. personification.
D. synecdoche.

Explanation

Parallelism is a rhetorical device where parts of a sentence are grammatically similar in construction, sound, meaning or meter; each phrase here follows the same structural pattern.

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