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 6 is an example of
- A. synecdoche
- B. irony
- C. paradox
- D. hyperbole
Correct Answer: C. paradox
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