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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 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 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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Allusion is applied in ________.
A: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.
B:It was there, ironically enough, that the Odyssey turned homeward.
C:I bear the same mark as a son of Watts now that I did during that oratorical contest in high school.
D:But when he took to agriculture, …and to dream of the life hereafter in which he would perpetually hunt the wild boar of Valhalla.
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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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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 remonstra奥鹏教育东北师范大学在线作业te 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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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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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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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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Rhetorical question is used in ________.
A:“It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done …”
B:How much harder will it be to eliminate the prejudice against women?
C:Why are women thought of as secretaries, not administrators? Librarians and teachers, but not doctors and lawyers?
D:I
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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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Which of the following sentences apply the rhetorical device of personification?
A:I had overlooked the necessity of having an “iron will,” … this peculiar metallic quality.
B:It is not so with me, to whom sleep is a coy mistress, …
C:I have herded imaginary sheep until they insisted on turning themselves into white bears or blue pigs, …
D:Discussing the question, … sleep drew the curtain.
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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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Which sentences apply the rhetorical device of simile?
A:Cake mixes, too, come ready-prepared—like cement and not much better-tasting compared with true cake.
B:Vegetables with crisp and crackling texture emerge as mush, slippery and stringy as hair nets simmered in Vaseline.
C:Everything, pretty much, tastes like the mosses of tundra, dug up in mid-winter.
D:Handsome comestibles you put down in the summer come out looking very much like the corpses of woolly mammoths recovered from the last Ice Age.
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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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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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Which of the following sentences use the rhetorical device of hyperbole?
A:Death would be too kind and brief.
B:I wanted to gobble up the room entire and take it to Bailey, who would help me analyze and enjoy it.
C:With the cold lemonade they were sufficient for childhood’s lifelong diet.
D:I knew from listening to a thousand preachers that she was nearing the end of her reading, and I hadn’t really heard, heard to understand, a single word.
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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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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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(The Spanish Bullfight) Successful matadors are even more idolized than film stars.
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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(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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(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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(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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(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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(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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(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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(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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(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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(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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(Eveline) Ernest, Harry and Little Keogh were all Eveline’s brothers.
A:错误
B:正确
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(A Lesson in Living) Marguerite wanted to behave like a nice little lady in front of Mrs. Flowers.
A:错误
B:正确
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(The Tragedy of Old Age in America) Old people who are poor have been poor all their lives.
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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(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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(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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(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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