Read the extract and answer the question My heart leaps up when I behold A...

LITERATURE
WAEC 2007

Read the extract and answer the question

My heart leaps up when I behold

A rainbow in the sky:

So was it when my life began,

So is it now that I am a man,

So be it when I shall grow

The child is father of the man

The literary device used in line 1 is

  • A. simile
  • B. alliteration
  • C. litotes
  • D. personification

Correct Answer: D. personification



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