It’s hard being a single mom, but it’s easier than being a miserable wife. What rhetorical devices is used in this sentence?
A. irony
B. antithesis
C. paradox
D. pun
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Then there had come a flash and glitter from the flank of the mountain across the valley. What is the rhetorical devices used in underlined part?
A. metaphor
B. metonymy
C. analogy
D. simile
That night the Board of Aldermen met—three graybeards and one younger man, a member of the rising generation. The underlined part is the use of _______.
A. synecdoche
B. metonymy
C. metaphor
D. simile
Each of the trees on the place had an attitude and a presence—the elm looked serene and the oak threatening, the maples friendly, the hawthorn old and crabby. What are the figures of speech in the underlined parts ?
A. simile
B. personification
C. metonymy
D. metaphor
At any moment, rumor could have sent those savage levies _______ away into the mountains.
A. moving
B. climbing
C. disappearing
D. scrambling