Neco 2022 Literature In English Question 60

Practice objective / multiple choice question 60 from the 2022 Neco Literature In English examination.

Neco 2022 Literature In English Objective / Multiple Choice Medium Difficulty
Question 60 NECO • 2022 • LITERATURE_IN_ENGLISH • objective

Read the following excerpt from Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart: "The drums beat, the women sang, and the fire crackled, but the silence in his heart grew louder with each passing night." Identify two rhetorical devices used in this sentence and explain how they together shape the overall tone of the passage.

Answer Options

A. Assonance and irony; together they give the passage a tense, ominous tone.
B. Alliteration and imagery; together they give the passage a hopeful, uplifting tone.
C. Metaphor and contrast; together they give the passage a somber, melancholic tone.
Correct Answer D. Alliteration and contrast; together they give the passage a somber, melancholic tone.
Correct Answer
D
Correct Option:
Alliteration and contrast; together they give the passage a somber, melancholic tone.

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This is Neco 2022 Literature In English Question 60. It is one of the objective questions from the 2022 Neco Literature In English examination.

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