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UI Post-UTME Literature in English 2017 (Model questions) Question 16

Question 16

African Poetry

I will pronounce your name, Obi, I will declaim you, Obi! The device used in the line above is

  1. A.refrain
  2. B.Parallelism
  3. C.chronological
  4. D.repetition
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Answer: B (Parallelism)

Explanation

The two clauses have the same structure ('I will pronounce…, I will declaim…'), which is parallelism.