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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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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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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 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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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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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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Which of the sentences below use the rhetorical 奥鹏教育东北师范大学在线作业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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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 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 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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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(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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(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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(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) 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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(The Spanish Bullfight) Successful matadors are even more idolized than film stars.
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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(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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(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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(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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(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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(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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(Why I Write) For fifteen years or more, Orwell wrote a story about himself.
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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(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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(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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(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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