In the cold hand of death... his mouth was cotton filled, his man-pike shrunk to...

LITERATURE
JAMB 1994

In the cold hand of death...

his mouth was cotton filled, his man-pike

shrunk to a sub-soil grub

his head was hallowed and his brain on scales-was this a trick to prove fore-knowledge after death?

Based on Wole Soyinka's '' Post Mortem, one of the techniques employed by this poet is the use of

  • A. juxtaposition
  • B. rhetoric
  • C. iambic meter
  • D. allusions

Correct Answer: A. juxtaposition



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