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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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Personification 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:One of the troubles about vanity is that it grows with what it feeds on.
C:Civilized life has grown altogether too tame, …
D:Any persons found advocating a preventive war should be condemned to two hours a day with these ingenious monsters.
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Analogy is used in ________.
A:The viewer is on a perpetual guided tour; 30 minutes at the museum, 30 at the cathedral, 30 for a drink, then back on the bus to the next attraction – except on television, …
B:The women of a nation mold its moral, its religions, and its politics by the lives they live.
C: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.
D:Why are women thought of as secretaries, not administrators? Librarians and teachers, but not doctors and lawyers?
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Simile is applied in ________.
A:In politics, a reformer may have just as strong a love of power as a despot.
B:And is it not, perhaps, a drug which—like opium—has to be taken in continually stronger doses to produce the desired effect?
C:When the Arabs, who had been used to living sparing
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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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Which of the following sentences use the rhetorical device o奥鹏教育东北师范大学在线作业f metaphor?
A:I had an impulse to climb up and try one of those springy beds, but that would have meant using up more energy when I had none to spare, …
B:By midday we had passed the ten thousand foot mark, but I am not really able to recall the incidents of these hours, for red lights had long since begun to dance in front of my eyes and …
C:The bamboo here had thinned out a little, and on the heights of the two mountains above we could see the curious productions of the alpine zones, giant heather, giant groundsel and giant lobelias.
D:After twenty minutes my legs had turned to water again and against the evident displeasure of the guides I demanded lunch.
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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:They lift the letters and carry them off like stretchers.
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Which sentences apply the rhetorical device of rhetorical question?
A:A slice of my mother-in-law’s apple pie will satiate you far better than a whole bakery pie.
B:But who eats with his eyes?
C:What matters if such peas taste like boiled paper wads?
D:Yet, if people don’t eat onions because they taste like onions, what in the name of Luther Burbank do they eat them for?
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Understatement is applied in ________.
A:It is the rarest thing in the world to hear a rational discussion of vivisection.
B:What he thought was, “I must have a Navy as good as Grandmamma’s.”
C:When the Arabs, who had been used to living sparingly on a few dates, acquired the riches of the Eastern Roman Empire…
D: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.
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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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Synecdoche 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:It would be worse than beating an anvil with a sledge-hammer.
D: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.”
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Antithesis is used in ________.
A: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.
B:… I heard the soft-voiced Mrs. Flowers and the texture
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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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Onomatopoeia is NOT used in ________.
A:Surely, humor is the saving grace of us, for without it we should die of vexation.
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:Between chime and chime of the clock …
D:Discussing the question, … sleep drew the curtain.
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Which of the sentences below use the rhetorical device of repetition?
A:What’s Wrong with Our Press?
B:Television may not have a Lippmann or a Reston, but then, what papers in America can claim an Eric Sevareid, a Walter Cronkite, a Huntley or a Brinkley, or—although he is invisible—an Edward Morgan?
C:Among the leading commentators on television, you find no Pegler, no Winchell, no Fulton Lewis, Jr..
D:Change means trouble, change means work, change means cost.
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Which of the following sentences use the rhetorical device of metaphor?
A:They were interrupted from time to time by giggles that must have come from Mrs. Flowers.
B:One summer afternoon, sweet-milk fresh in my memory, she stopped at the Store to buy provisions.
C:The chifforobe was a maze.
D:Children these days would bust out of sheetmetal clothes.
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Metaphor is applied in ________.
A:…satiety is a dream which will always elude you.
B: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.
C:Dance halls, cinemas, this age of jazz are all, if we may believe our ears, gateway to Hell, and we should be better employed sitting at home contemplating our sins.
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 following sentences use the rhetorical device of allusion?
A:… and my image of her would have been shattered like the unmendable Humpty-Dumpty.
B:Pride is a sin. And according to the Good Book, it goeth before a fall.
C:… I heard the soft-voiced Mrs. Flowers and the textured voice of my grandmother merging and meltin
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(Science Has Spoiled My Supper) The author hates frozen foods in spite of their seeming advantages.
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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(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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(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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(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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(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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(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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(Eveline) Ernest, Harry and Little Keogh were all Eveline’s brothers.
A:错误
B:正确
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(Vivisection) The author dismisses the question of how much cruelty there is in laboratories because it is not important at all.
A:错误
B:正确
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(Why I Write) When writing Homage to Catalonia, Orwell’s first concern is political.
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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(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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(A Lesson in Living) Mrs. Flowers was an intimate friend of the family who frequently came to chat with Momma.
A:错误
B:正确
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(A Most Forgiving Ape) The author found the area very disturbing because the equator sun was beating down him mercilessly.
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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(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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(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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(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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(I’ll Never Escape the Ghetto) The Watts riots were a massive action led by a few civil rights leaders.
A:错误
B:正确
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