The dominant literary device is

Read the extract below and answer questions 9 to 11.

What happened to a dream deferred?

Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun?

Or fester like a sore

And then run?

Does it stink like rotten meat?

A. the epithet
B. the rhetorical question
C. verbal irony
D. paradox

Correct Answer:

Option B = the rhetorical question