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JAMB Literature in English 2011 Question 26

Question 26

African Poetry
Give Me The Minstrel's Seat (extract)
The passage, as printed

The statement above from the poem Give Me The Minstrel's Seat exemplifies

  1. A.litotes
  2. B.transferred epithet
  3. C.synecdoche
  4. D.rhetorical question.
Show the answer and explanation

Answer: D (rhetorical question.)

Explanation

'What is there in that to vex some of them so?' is asked for effect, not for an answer: a rhetorical question.