JAMB Literature in English 2011 Question 33

Question 33

Figures of Speech

The repetition of single words or phrases at the beginning of lines is

  1. A.assonance
  2. B.onomatopoeia
  3. C.alliteration
  4. D.parallelism.
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Answer: D (parallelism.)

Explanation

Repeating the same words at the start of lines (anaphora) builds parallel structure; of these options only parallelism fits.