Question 20
Use the excerpt below to answer questions 19 and 20

‘With skin like fleshy roasted groundnuts, light-brown eyes like ripe udalaskin, a pointed nose like that of a white woman, a ling neck that looked like that of a gazelle, a razor sharp brain and slim physique fallin all the rightplaces, she attracted suitors like ants to a tangerine tree.'

The dominant figure of speech in the description is

  • A.hyperbole
  • B.irony
  • C.metaphor
  • D.pun
  • E.simile.
Objective

Question details

Exam body
BECE
Subject
English Language
Year
2020 Paper 2
Question no.
#20
Type
Objective

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