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Which sentences apply the rhetorical device of personification?
A:All at one time it can be brave, pitiful, squalid, heroic, messy, chivalrous, and obscene.
B:It was a pleasant summer afternoon, and the rows and rows of houses looked unusually bright and gay in the sun..
C:This helped to alleviate the dreadful nature of the houses, which looked shocking from nearby, but which looked oddly bright and distinct and well-intentioned when glorified by mass and distance.
D:…the truth was too grotesque and too unnatural, and her hopes were so strong that she carelessly let them wander a little, giving them a little leeway, letting them sniff and pry and explore.
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Transferred epithet is NOT used in ________.
A:But there is a man in my office, a Mr. H., who proses it away from morning to night, …
B:Surely, humor is the saving grace of us, for without it we should die of vexation.
C:I stare at the reproachfully blank paper until sights and sounds become dim and con
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Simile is NOT used in ________.
A:Good prose is like a window pane.
B:A yellow beam of sunlight, filtering through the muslin curtains, slanted on to the table, where a matchbox, half open, lay beside the inkpot.
C:Writers share this characteristic … in short, with the whole top crust of humanity.
D:It can be seen how these various impulses must war against one another, and how …
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Hyperbole is NOT used in ________.
A:Surely, humor is the saving grace of us, for without it we should die of vexation.
B:I must confess that I always … those “as soon as my head touches the pillow” fellows.
C:I used to read, … thanks to their “iron wills,” could lie down and plunge themselves immediately into deep sleep, …
D:I had overlooked the necessity of having an “iron will,” … this peculiar metallic quality.
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Parallelism is used in ________.
A:It sells us instant gratification. It diverts us only to divert, to make the time pass without pain.
B:Consider the casual assumptions that television tends to cultivate: that complexity must be avoided, that visual stimulation is a substitute for thought, that verbal precisio is an anachronism.
C:Television’s variety becomes a narcotic, not a stimulus.
D:Everything about this nation – the structure of the society, its forms of family organization, its economy, its place in the world – has become more complex, not less.
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Parallelism is NOT used in ________.
A:A yellow beam of sunlight, filtering through the muslin curtains, slanted on to the table, where a matchbox, half open, lay beside the inkpot.
B:Who would want to remonstrate and argue with them?
C:It is not so with me, to whom sleep is a coy mistress, much given to a teasing inconsistency and for ever demanding to be wooed – “lest too light winning make the prize light.”
D:… for even after the most eventful day, there is no comparing notes with them, no midnight confidence, no casting up the balance of the day’s pleasure and pain.
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Antithesis is not used in ________.
A:Why are women thought of as secretaries, not administrators? Librarians and teachers, but not doctors and lawyers?
B:She said that I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and even more intelligent than college professors.
C:But they talked, and from the side of the building where I waited for the ground to open up and swallow me, I heard …
D:Why are women thought of as secretaries, not administrators? Librarians and teachers, but not doctors and lawyers?
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Antithesis is applied in ________.
A:If a mere sentiment justifies cruelty, why stop at a sentiment for the whole human race?
B:It is so deep a need that it will find harmful outlets of this kind unless innocent outlets are at hand.
C:If it is not defended on the ground that it reduces human suffering, on what ground can it be defended?
D:If we find a man giving pleasure it is for us to prove (if we criticize him) that his action is wrong. But if we find a man inflicting pain it is for him to prove that his action is right.
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Which sentences apply the rhetorical device of zoosemy?
A:They look like figures representing gluttony in a medieval morality play, and you expect ladies in wimples to appear and clowns dressed like monkeys.
B:All at one time it can be brave, pitiful, squalid, heroic, messy, chivalrous, and obscene.
C:She set her white face to him, passive like a helpless animal.
D:T奥鹏教育东北师范大学在线作业hey lift the letters and carry them off like stretchers.
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Metaphor is NOT used in ________.
A:Good prose is like a window pane.
B:A yellow beam of sunlight, filtering through the muslin curtains, slanted on to the table, where a matchbox, half open, lay beside the inkpot.
C:Writers share this characteristic … in short, with the whole top crust of humanity.
D:I cannot say with certainty which of my motives are the strongest, but I know which of them deserve to be followed.
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Hyperbole is applied in ________.
A:What they really value among the gifts that we bring to them is intoxicating liquor, which enables them, for the first time in their lives, to have the illusion, for a few brief moments, that it is better to be alive than dead; on a few dates in paradise.
B:And when excitement by means of nicotine failed, a patriotic orator would stir them up to attack a neighbouring tribe, which would give them all the enjoyment that we (according to our temperament) derive from a horse race or a General Election.
C:But when he took to agriculture, …and to dream of the life hereafter in which he would perpetually hunt the wild boar of Valhalla.
D:It is scarcely possible to exaggerate the influence of vanity throughout the range of human life, from the child of three to the potentate at whose frown the world trembles.
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Which of the sentences below use the rhetorical device of rhetorical question?
A:Rouse the Rabble by Routing Reason.
B:What is there for them in the paper, usually the only paper, of their own?
C:What features are provided for these people?
D:To quote Eric Sevareid: “Our rigid formulae of so-called objectivity, . . .the warp and woof of
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Which of the sentences below apply the rhetorical device of metonymy?
A:That is why they always find Tschaikovsky easier to “understand” than Beethoven.
B:Is it pessimistically sad or resignedly sad; is it fatefully sad or smilingly sad?
C:Whether you listen to Mozart or Duke Ellington, you can deepen your understanding of musi
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Metaphor is used in ________.
A:… had bequeathed to us tablets of stone commanding that nothing in television shall ever require more than a few moments’ concentration.
B:Who can quarrel with a medium that so brilliantly packages escapist entertainment as a mass-marketing tool?
C:… force feeding on trivial fare is not itself a trivial matter.
D:… and I fear that … and our appetite for complexity are only dimly perceived.
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Analogy is NOT used in ________.
A:Good prose is like a window pane.
B:It is not so with me, to whom sleep is a coy mistress, much given to a teasing inconsistency and for ever demanding to be wooed – “lest too light winning make the prize light.”
C:Who would want to remonstrate and argue with them?
D:I stare at the reproachfully blank paper until sights and sounds become dim and confused, …
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Which sentences use the rhetorical device of understatement?
A:fading fast, over the hill, out to pasture, down the drain, finished, out of date.
B:For the most part the elderly struggle to exist in an inhospitable world.
C:Voluntary hospitals are well known for dumping the “Medicare patient” into municipal hospitals…
D:This feature objectivity is nothing less than the editor’s abdication of responsibility and is just as dangerous as the long and subtle processing of fact to fit a policy that characterizes certain weekly magazines.
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Allusion is not used in ________.
A:Who can quarrel with a medium that so brilliantly packages escapist entertainment as a mass-marketing tool?
B:When before in human history has so much humanity collectively surrendered so much of its leisure to one toy, one mass deivesion?
C:When before has
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Which sentences apply the rhetorical device of simile?
A:Clara did not mind the cold, for she liked anything that was not small and cramped and heartlessly cosy…
B:She handled her apparatus with the efficient familiarity with which other women handle their baking boards and rolling pins…
C:Personally, I don’t care if they hybridize onions till they are as big as your head and come up through the snow…
D:What matters if such peas taste like boiled paper wads?
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Sarcasm is applied in ________.
A:When white men first effect contact with some unspoilt race of savages, they offer them all kinds of benefits, from the light of the Gospel to pumpkin pie.
B:When the Arabs, who had been used to living sparingly on a few dates, acquired the riches of the Eastern Roman Empire and dwelt in palaces of almost unbelievable luxury, they did not, on that account, become inactive.
C:When London crowds assemble in Trafalgar Square to cheer to the echo an announcement that the government has decided to have them killed, they would not do so if they had walked 25 mile that day.
D:Any persons found advocating a preventive war should be condemned to two hours a day with these ingenious monsters.
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Metaphor is used in ________.
A:To be allowed, no, invited, into the private lives of strangers, and to share their joys and fears, was a chance to exchange the Southern bitter wormwood for a cup of mead with Beowulf or a hot cup of tea and milk with Oliver Twist.
B:“It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done …”
C:Part of the problem is that women in America are much more brainwashed and content with their roles as second-class citizens than blacks ever were.
D:I have done the work — … while man reaped the rewards, which is almost invariably the lot of women in politics.
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(Eveline) Ernest, Harry and Little Keogh were all Eveline’s brothers.
A:错误
B:正确
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(I’d Rather Be Black Than Female) The author spent twenty years doing all the routine work only to get her male colleagues elected to important positions.
A:错误
B:正确
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(Four Choices for Young People) To deal with such problems, the young should draw on the experiences of the old rather than reject them altogether.
A:错误
B:正确
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(On Human Nature and Politics) Some criminals enjoy seeing public accounts of their worst acts.
A:错误
B:正确
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(Rock Superstars) To become a rock star seems to be the fastest way to fortune and fame.
A:错误
B:正确
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(Four Choices for Young People) Few unspoiled places remain in our world where the escapists can practice plain-living and high thinking.
A:错误
B:正确
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(Eveline) Eveline was more attracted to Frank by his wide experience than by his person.
A:错误
B:正确
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(The Spanish Bullfight) Successful matadors are even more idolized than film stars.
A:错误
B:正确
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(Science Has Spoiled My Supper) What the author calls “cheese foods” used to be hand-made in small factories.
A:错误
B:正确
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(What’s Wrong with Our Press?) The author thinks that one of TV’s advantage over papers is its wide range of entertainment for the public.
A:错误
B:正确
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(On Getting Off to Sleep) The author says that when he is in bed, he feels like writing, so he puts pens, ink and paper near him.
A:错误
B:正确
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(The Trouble with Television) The only thing Americans do when they are at leisure is to watch television.
A:错误
B:正确
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(Vivisection) Protest against vivisection used to be strong, but today no one dare show any opposition.
A:错误
B:正确
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(What to Listen for in Music) Musical listening is actually done on the three planes simultaneously.
A:错误
B:正确
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(Jerusalem the Golden) From the absence of male teachers and students in the excerpt we can conclude that it was not a co-educated school.
A:错误
B:正确
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(Eveline) What made Eveline pluck up her courage and leave for the station was that she didn’t want to live her mother.
A:错误
B:正确
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(Why I Write) For fifteen years or more, Orwell wrote a story about himself.
A:错误
B:正确
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(Eveline) Elveline’s father was a brute man and often beat his children including his daughter.
A:错误
B:正确
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(Why I Write) According to Orwell, all writers, even writers of railway guides, have aesthetic considerations.
A:错误
B:正确
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(Why I Write) Orwell believes that talented people have individual ambition which is a motive to drive them on.
A:错误
B:正确
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