JAMB - Literature In English (2022 - No. 29)
'To see a world in a grain of sand
And a heaven in a wild flower
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand
And eternity in an hour'
- William Blake
To see a World In a Grain of Sand.
The predominant figure of speech used in the lines above is
And a heaven in a wild flower
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand
And eternity in an hour'
- William Blake
To see a World In a Grain of Sand.
The predominant figure of speech used in the lines above is
metaphor
simile
paradox
hyperbole
Explanation
Every line is a metaphor – an imaginative way of describing something by referring to something else which is the same in a particular way.
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