JAMB - Literature In English (1981 - No. 25)
'Tired teachers wipe
The chalk dust
On their faces
The school dam bursts
Ans floods of hungry children
Melt into their mother's bosoms'.
In this passage describing the end of the school day, children's movements are made memorable through the use, in lines 4-5 of
The chalk dust
On their faces
The school dam bursts
Ans floods of hungry children
Melt into their mother's bosoms'.
In this passage describing the end of the school day, children's movements are made memorable through the use, in lines 4-5 of
simile
metaphor
alliteration
cadence
inversions.
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