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WAEC - Literature In English (2023 - No. 30)

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: A Midsummer Night's Dream

Read the extract below and answer the following question: 

The boat nodded in timing with the gentle
Bobbing of the float on the unhurrying
Tide as the angler awaited the bite and
Pull of a salmon

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: A Midsummer Night's Dream

Read the extract below and answer the following question: 

The boat nodded in timing with the gentle
Bobbing of the float on the unhurrying
Tide as the angler awaited the bite and
Pull of a salmon

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: A Midsummer Night's Dream

Read the extract below and answer the following question: 

The boat nodded in timing with the gentle
Bobbing of the float on the unhurrying
Tide as the angler awaited the bite and
Pull of a salmon

The dominant literary device used in the extract is
parallelism
apostrophe
personification
antithesis

Explanation

The dominant literary device used in the extract is personification. Personification is a figure of speech in which a thing, an idea or an animal is given human attributes. In the extract, the boat is personified as 'nodding' in time with the tide, a human action.

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