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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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Simile is used in ________.
A:Who can quarrel with a medium that so brilliantly packages escapist entertainment as a mass-marketing tool?
B:Much of it is what has been aptly described as “machine gunning with scraps.”
C:For nearly a year, I sopped around the house, the Store, the school and the church, like an old biscuit, dirty and inedible.
D:Television’s variety becomes a narcotic, not a stimulus.
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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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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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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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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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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 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 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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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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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 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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Which of the following sentences use the rhetorical device of 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 奥鹏教育东北师范大学在线作业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 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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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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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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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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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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Which of the following sentences do not use the rhetorical device of metonymy?
A:Like women in English novels who walk the moors with their loyal dogs racing at a respectful distance.
B:… I heard the soft-voiced Mrs. Flowers and the textured voice of my grandmother merging and melting.
C:… and my image of her would have been shattered l
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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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(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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(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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(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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(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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(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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(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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(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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(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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(Eveline) Ernest, Harry and Little Keogh were all Eveline’s brothers.
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) For fifteen years or more, Orwell wrote a story about himself.
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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(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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(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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(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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(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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(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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(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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(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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(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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