Read the extract below and answer the question Lock up my doors, and when you...
LITERATURE
WAEC 2002
Read the extract below and answer the question
Lock up my doors, and when you hear the drum
And the vile squealing of the wry-necked fife.
Clamber not you up to the casements then
Nor thrust you up to the casements then
TO GAZE ON CHRISTIAN FOOLS WITH VARNISHED FACES.
(Act 11 sc V)
The dominant literary device used in the extract is
- A. allusion
- B. irony
- C. symbolism
- D. metonymy
Correct Answer: A. allusion
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