IV. Rhetorical device (1×10=10%)
Directions: There are TEN sentences in this section, please name the rhetorical device(s) in each sentence (more than one device may be contained in some sentences), and then write your answers on the Answer Sheet.
41. We were a small tight group, clustered together, our bare upper bodies touching and shining with anticipatory sweat.
42. And all the while the blonde continued dancing, smiling faintly at the big shots who watched her with fascination, and faintly smiling at our fear.
43. In my mind each word was as bright as flame.
44. I could hear the bleary voices yelling insistently for the battle royal to begin.
45. In other words, if you were out of the picture, the field would be open.
46. Back and forth his head swiveled, desire waxing, resolution waning.
47. My brain, that precision instrument, slipped into high gear.
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48. It was she who used to come between me and my paper when I was writing reviews. It was she who bothered me and wasted my time and so tormented me that at last I killed her.
49. It is a still stranger thing that there is nothing so delightful in the world as telling stories. It is far pleasanter than writing reviews of famous novels.
50. …is that nothing may disturb or disquiet the mysterious nosings about, feelings round, darts, dashes and sudden discoveries of that very shy and illusive spirit, the imagination.
41. transferred epithet 42. chiasmus 43. simile 44. transferred epithet
45. metaphor 46. antithesis 47. metaphor 48. parallel structure/parallelism 49. parallel structure/parallelism 50. alliteration
41. …is that nothing may disturb or disquiet the mysterious nosing about, feelings round, darts, dashes and sudden discoveries of that very shy and illusive spirit, the imagination.
42. It has to be furnished; it has to be decorated; it has to be shared.
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43. What could be easier than to write articles and to buy Persian cats with the profits?
44. She was a fit wife for me, a proper hostess for my many mansions, suitable mother for my well-heeled children.
45. You are the whole world to me, and the moon and the stars and the constellations of outer space.
46. I leaped to my feet, bellowing like a bull.
47. It is not often that one so young has such a giant intellect.
48. We were a small tight group, clustered together, our bare upper bodies touching and shining with anticipatory sweat.
49. And all the while the blonde continued dancing, smiling faintly at the big shots who watched her with fascination, and faintly smiling at our fear.
50. It is a still stranger thing that there is nothing so delightful in the world as telling stories. It is far pleasanter than writing reviews of famous novels.
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41. alliteration 42. parallel structure/parallelism 43. rhetorical question
44. parallel structure/parallelism 45. overstatement/hyperbole/exaggeration 46. simile 47. overstatement/exaggeration/hyperbole 48. transferred epithet 49. chiasmus 50. parallel structure/parallelism
41. In other words, if you were out of the picture, the field would be open.
42. …and, in everything social, separate like the fingers of the hand.
43. I never told you, but our life is a war and I have been a traitor all my born day…
44. We were a small tight group, clustered together, our bare upper bodies touching and shining with anticipatory sweat;
45. No demand was made upon the family purse.
46. I have to admit that instead of spending that sum upon bread and butter, rent, shoes and stockings, or butcher’s bills….
47. It was she who used to come between me and my paper when I was writing
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reviews. It was she who bothered me and wasted my time and so tormented me that at last I killed her.
48. It is a still stranger thing that there is nothing so delightful in the world as telling stories. It is far pleasanter than writing reviews of famous novels.
49. My brain was as powerful as a dynamo, as precise as a chemist’s scales, as penetrating as a scalpel.
50. She was, to be sure, a girl who excited the emotions, but I was not one to let my heart rule my head.
41. metaphor 42. simile 43. metaphor 44. transferred epithet 45. metonymy 46. alliteration; metonymy 47. parallel structure/parallelism 48. parallel structure/parallelism 49. simile 50. metonymy
41. What could be easier than to write articles and to buy Persian cats with the profits?
42. My brain, that precision instrument, slipped into high gear.
43. Maybe somewhere in the extinct crater of her mind, a few embers still
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smoldered.
44. There is a limit to what flesh and blood can bear.
45. I could hear the bleary voices yelling insistently for the battle royal to begin.
46. But now I felt a sudden fit of blind terror.
47. The room spun round me, a swirl of lights, smoke, sweating bodies surrounded by tense white faces.
48. …is that nothing may disturb or disquiet the mysterious nosings about, feelings round, darts, dashes and sudden discoveries of that very shy and illusive spirit, the imagination.
49. It has to be furnished; it has to be decorated; it has to be shared.
50. In my mind each word was as bright as flame.
41. rhetorical question 42. metaphor 43. metaphor 44. synecdoche
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45. transferred epithet 46. transferred epithet 47. alliteration; synecdoche
48. alliteration 49. parallel structure/parallelism 50. simile
VI. Book Review (20×1=20%)
Professions for Women
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