JAMB - Literature In English (1988 - No. 44)

From the novel; Great Expectation
From the novel; Great Expectation
From the novel; Great Expectation
This question is based on Charles Dicken's Great Expectations.
'Created half to rise, and half to fal;
Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all;
Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled;
The glory, jest, and riddle of the world'.
These lines from Alexander Pope's 'Essay on
Man' show a skilful exploitation of the rhetorical device of
zeugma
oxymoron
antithesis
conceit

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