WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: A Midsummer Night's Dream Read the extract below and answer the following question:...
LITERATURE
WAEC 2023
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: A Midsummer Night's Dream
Read the extract below and answer the following question:
The boat nodded in timing with the gentle
Bobbing of the float on the unhurrying
Tide as the angler awaited the bite and
Pull of a salmon
The dominant literary device used in the extract is- A. parallelism
- B. apostrophe
- C. personification
- D. antithesis
Correct Answer: C. personification
Explanation
The dominant literary device used in the extract is personification. Personification is a figure of speech in which a thing, an idea or an animal is given human attributes. In the extract, the boat is personified as 'nodding' in time with the tide, a human action.
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