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JAMB Literature in English 2001 Question 5

Question 5

Literary Appreciation: Prose and Drama
Wole Soyinka, The Beautification of Area Boy (extract)
The passage, as printed

Wole Soyinka, The Beautification of Area Boy: The literary devices in the dialogue above are

  1. A.humour and irony
  2. B.allusion and paradox
  3. C.irony and parody
  4. D.hyperbole and allusion
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Answer: D (hyperbole and allusion)

Explanation

Shaving 'an entire battalion between one coup and the next' is exaggeration (hyperbole), and the coups refer to Nigeria's military history (allusion).