超星 - lesson 4 rhetorical devices - 查题吧

单选题

Identify the rhetorical devices of the underlined part in the following sentences:1. Darrow had whispered, throwing a reassuring arm round my shoulder as we were waiting for the court to open.

A. transferred epithet
B. alliteration
C. irony
D. personification

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Identify the rhetorical devices of the underlined part in the following sentence:2. By the time the trial began on July 10, our town of 1500 people had taken on a circus atmosphere.

A. alliteration
B. metaphor
C. metonymy
D. antithesis

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Identify the rhetorical devices of the underlined part in the following sentence:4. The Christian believes that man came from above. The evolutionist believes that he must have come from below.

A. personification
B. transferred epithet
C. alliteration
D. antithesis

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Identify the rhetorical devices of the underlined part in the following sentence:5. One shop announced: DARWIN IS RIGHT--INSIDE.

A. personification
B. consonance
C. pun
D. oxymoron

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Identify the rhetorical devices of the underlined part in the following sentence:6. Dudley Field Malone called my conviction a "victorious defeat".

A. paradox
B. oxymoron
C. pun
D. metaphor

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Identify the rhetorical devices of the underlined part in the following sentence:7. The White House praised volunteers for their efforts.

A. metonymy
B. alliteration
C. metaphor
D. personification

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Identify the rhetorical devices of the underlined part in the following sentence:8. After a while, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until we are marching backwards to the glorious age of the sixteenth century....

A. metonymy
B. antithesis
C. pun
D. irony

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Identify the rhetorical devices of the underlined part in the following sentence:9. ......when bigots lighted faggots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind.

A. assonance
B. consonance
C. alliteration
D. metaphor

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Identify the rhetorical devices in the following sentences:10. The truth always wins--and we are not afraid of it. The truth does not need Mr. Bryan. The truth is eternal, immortal and needs no human agency to support it!"

A. repetition
B. pun
C. personification
D. antithesis

单选题

Identify the rhetorical devices of the underlined part in the following sentences:11. Gone was the fierce fervor of the days when Bryan had swept the political arena like a prairie fire.

A. metaphor
B. alliteration
C. simile
D. pun

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