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JAMB - Literature In English (2013 - No. 44)

These question are based on selected poems from Johnson, R. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ed.): Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds): A Selection of African Poetry; Umukoro M. et al: Exam Focus: Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A.E. et al (eds.): Longman Examination Guides: Poetry for Senior Secondray Schools NWOGA, d.i. (ED.) wEST aFRICAN vERSE.

'Since it was you who in all these thin seasons."

The device employed in the line above from Kunene's The Heritage of Liberation, is an example of
anecdote
aside
apostrophe
allusion

Explanation

Apostrophe is a literary device in which a speaker directly addresses an absent person, a dead person, an inanimate object, or an abstract idea as if it were present and capable of responding.

In the line "Since it was you who in all these thin seasons" from Kunene's The Heritage of Liberation, the speaker appears to be addressing someone absent or not directly present, making it an example of apostrophe.

Apostrophe is a literary device in which a speaker directly addresses an absent person, a dead person, an inanimate object, or an abstract idea as if it were present and capable of responding.

In the line "Since it was you who in all these thin seasons" from Kunene's The Heritage of Liberation, the speaker appears to be addressing someone absent or not directly present, making it an example of apostrophe.

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