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WAEC SSCE - Literature In English - 2002 (Objective)

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UNSEEN PROSE AND POETRY

The month of July crept in. The sky, like a hooded monk wore black, as in mourning, ready to shed its load. The sun was mystified while heaps of sand and dust spiralled high up in the sky, sending high and low alike scurrying into hiding. The town had never known such a downpour, it was forty-eight hours of weeping by both the heavens and the inhabitants of Olusi who lost most of their life's savings in this destructive blessing.

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The phrase "destructive blessing" is an example of an oxymoron. An oxymoron is a figure of speech in which two seemingly contradictory words are placed together to create an effect. In this case, "destructive" and "blessing" are contradictory because a blessing is usually seen as something positive, while something destructive is negative. The use of the oxymoron emphasizes the irony of the situation, where the heavy downpour of rain that is a blessing from the heavens has resulted in destruction and loss for the inhabitants of Olusi.
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