Questions are based on Literary appreciation "I or tools"
"Today I stand in the cloud remembering my good in mood on that stage where I once stood waving at the cheering crowd Oluemi Ojediran "At your back" The sound devices in the excerpt above are ____________
A. assonance and rhyme B. alliteration and onomatopoeia C. repetition and assonance D. caesura and rhyme
Correct Answer: D
Explanation
The excerpt has two sound devices caesura and rhyme. Caesura is a strong pause in the middle of lines of poetry. often marked by punciuation. Caesura is accentuation when the poem is read out thereby bringing out the sound beauty of the poem. In the excerpt. there are pauses immediately after these words: "Today". "cloud'. "on that stage'. 'stood'.
