Question 0

'Tired teachers wipe
The chalk dust
On their faces
The school dam bursts
Ans floods of hungry children
Melt into their mother's bosoms'.

In this passage describing the end of the school day, children's movements are made memorable through the use, in lines 4-5 of

  • A.simile
  • B.metaphor
  • C.alliteration
  • D.cadence
  • E.inversions.
Objective

Question details

Exam body
JAMB
Subject
Literature in English
Year
1981
Question no.
#0
Type
Objective

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