JAMB - Literature In English (1982 - No. 28)
Science, that simple saint, cannot be bothered Figuring what anything is far;
Enough for her devotions that things are And can be contemplated soon as gathered
She knows how every living thing was fathered,
She calculates the climate of each star,
She counts the fish at sea, but cannot care
Why any one of them exists, fish, fire or feathered
The dominant rhetorical device used in the poem is
Enough for her devotions that things are And can be contemplated soon as gathered
She knows how every living thing was fathered,
She calculates the climate of each star,
She counts the fish at sea, but cannot care
Why any one of them exists, fish, fire or feathered
The dominant rhetorical device used in the poem is
apostrophe
personification
metonymy
synecdoche
simile.
Explanation
Personification is a literary device in which human qualities are attributed to non-human things or abstract concepts. In the poem, "Science" is described as a "simple saint" who "cannot be bothered," "knows," "calculates," "counts," and "cannot care." These are all human attributes, making personification the dominant rhetorical device in the poem.
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