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WAEC SSCE - Literature In English - 2007 (Objective)

Question 1 Report

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My heart leaps up when I behold
A rainbow in the sky:
So was it when my life began,
So is it now that I am a man,
So be it when I shall grow
The child is father of the man

The literary device used in line 6 is an example of
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The literary device used in line 6 is paradox. A paradox is a statement that appears to be self-contradictory or absurd but in reality, expresses a possible truth. In the line, "The child is father of the man," there is an apparent contradiction because a child cannot be the father of a grown man. However, the statement expresses the truth that the qualities and experiences of childhood shape and influence the person one becomes as an adult.
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