WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Read the extract below and answer the following question:
The boat nodded in timing with the gentle
Bobbing of the float on the unhurrying
Tide as the angler awaited the bite and
Pull of a salmon
The dominant literary device used in the extract is
- parallelism
- apostrophe
-
personification
- antithesis
The correct answer is: C
Explanation
The dominant literary device used in the extract is personification. Personification is a figure of speech in which a thing, an idea or an animal is given human attributes. In the extract, the boat is personified as 'nodding' in time with the tide, a human action.