Question

The title of achebe’s things fall apart is an example of what literary device?

-allegory
-proverb
-literary allusion
-extended metaphor

Answer 1

I believe the answer is Literary Allusion.

Answer 2

The correct answer is "literary allusion".

Step-by-step explanation:

The novel "Things Fall Apart" by Chinua Achebe describes the pre-colonial life in the south-eastern part of Nigeria as Europeans started the colonization of the late 19th century. The title is comes from a line of William Butler Yeats' "The Second Coming", which states "Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world". Yeats used the phrase to describe how he sees the Second Coming of Christ, however Achebe uses it to describe the suffering of Nigeria people when Europeans were at their Christian missions. The title of the novel "Things Fall Apart" by Chinua Achebe is an example of a "literary allusion" since is a reference of another literary work, in this case William Butler Yeats' "The Second Coming".