JAMB - Literature In English (2025 - No. 82)
This question is based on General Literature Principles and Literary Appreciation. 'Beautiful Kareendi, flower of my heart. No one but you can type them. For I want to send them care of the address of your heart, by the post of your heart, to be read by the eye of your heart, thereafter to be kept within your heart, sealed there forever and ever.'
The dominant device in this extract is
progressive amplification
bold contrast
progressive repetition
rhetorical emphasis
Explanation
The sentence builds layer upon layer of increasingly intense thoughts, which is amplification.
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