'Serrating down your back and front Like be..

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'Serrating down your back and front

Like beak of the sword-fish,

And both your ears, notched

As a bondsman to this house...'

The dominant figure of speech in the above lines from J.P. Clark's 'Abiku' is

onomatopoeia

synecdoche

simile

metaphor

verismilitude.

'Serrating down your back and front Like beak of the sword-fish, And both your ears, notched As a bondsman to this house...' The dominant figure of speech i...