GCELiterature in EnglishAfrican Poetry2019

Which literary device is predominantly used in Wole Soyinka's poem 'Telephone Conversation'?

AAllegory
BDramatic monologueCORRECT
CStream of consciousness
DEpic simile
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Soyinka's 'Telephone Conversation' is structured as a dramatic monologue in which the speaker recounts a telephone exchange with a racist landlady. The reader only hears one side of the conversation directly, with the landlady's words implied through the speaker's responses, making it a classic dramatic monologue.
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