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WAEC SSCE - Literature In English - 2016 (Objective)

Question 1 Report

Read the poem and answer the question

We have come to the crossroads
And I must either leave or come with you
I lingered over the choice
But in the darkness of my doubts
You lifted the lamp of love
And I saw in your face
The road that I should take.

The dominant literary device used in the poem is
Answer Details
The dominant literary device used in the poem is metaphor. The poem compares the choice the speaker must make to a crossroads, where they must decide whether to leave or stay with the addressee. The choice is represented as a physical path, which the speaker must take. The metaphor is extended further with the image of the addressee lifting a lamp of love, illuminating the path for the speaker and showing them the way to go. The road, therefore, represents the speaker's choice or decision.
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