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Difficulty: EasyAnalysis of Prescribed African Poems

Match each excerpt from the prescribed African poems to its primary literary device.

  • "spreads like butter" (Lenrie Peters, The Panic of Growing Older)Simile
  • "The grieved lands of Africa" (Agostinho Neto, The Grieved Lands)Personification
  • "Sew the old days for us on the new" (Kofi Awoonor, The Anvil and the Hammer)Metaphor
  • "What heart will listen to our clamour?" (Birago Diop, Vanity)Rhetorical Question

Answer

"spreads like butter" matches Simile; "The grieved lands of Africa" matches Personification; "Sew the old days for us on the new" matches Metaphor; "What heart will listen to our clamour?" matches Rhetorical Question.
Each excerpt features a distinct literary device: 'spreads like butter' relies on an explicit comparison marker ('like') making it a simile; 'grieved lands' endows geography with human emotion making it personification; 'sew the old days for us on the new' creates an implicit comparison of cultural synthesis making it a metaphor; and 'what heart will listen to our clamour?' poses a dramatic question expecting no answer, making it a rhetorical question.

Step-by-Step Solution

1
Analyze the figurative language in each excerpt from the prescribed African poems.
Identified explicit comparison word 'like' in the first line, human quality applied to non-human land in the second, direct implicit comparison of combining cultures in the third, and a dramatic unanswerable question in the fourth.
Determining the defining stylistic technique of each poetic excerpt enables precise device matching.
2
Match each poem excerpt with its corresponding literary device definition.
Paired the line containing 'like' to Simile, the emotional land reference to Personification, the direct cultural stitching comparison to Metaphor, and the expressive question to Rhetorical Question.
Aligning specific textual evidence with standard literary definitions ensures correct categorization.

Key Concept

Identification of Literary Devices in Prescribed African Poetry
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