English, 04.09.2020 16:01, tylerallen0918102
Which literary device is being illustrated in these short passages? A passage may illustrate more than one device. Number your answers correctly. Passage One âHe always calls me his Darling Daughter Deza, and I am supposed to answer that he is my Dearest Delightful Daddy. He calls Jimmie the Genuine, Gentle Jumpinâ Giant, and Jimmieâs supposed to call him his Fine Friendly Father Figure. Father also calls Mother the Marvelous Mammalian Matriarch, but she says she wonât respond because she refuses to play silly word games with such âa hardheaded husband who hasnât heard how horrible he is". Passage Two âA few blocks away, inside St. Josephâs Church, Gerald Coleman lay surrounded by splintered boards. When he looked up, he could see the sky. The tall roof, shaped like an upside-down V, was gone. The churchâs arched windows gaped glassless. Unseen by Gerald, his friend Leoâthe other alter boyâwas trapped beneath a large wooden beam. Gerald scramble through a hole in the wall and ran for homeâ. Passage Three âMoose are large, and essentially insane with almost pathological hatred of the dogs, the sled, the musher, trees, trains, cars, and everything else as near as I can figure. When they come at you itâs like getting run over by Buick with legsâ. Passage Four âEvery summer the local news carries stories about people who poison themselves accidentally by inhaling oleander fumes from a beach bonfire. Or people who use oleander twigs to roast hot dogs. But what had drawn me was the photo of the oleander growing next to the orphanage, all the way in Afghanistan. It bonded us all togetherâWard, Dad, and me. Poisonous, yet, but in its own way, oleander is beautiful and it grows in places that more delicate plants canâtâ Passage Five âPeople started screaming at the top of their lungs. Campers stormed the court, lifting us up on their shoulders as if weâd won the NBA championship (or the Nobel Prize). Kids were hugging each other. It was a madhouse. A happy madhouseâ
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Isaw clearly the doom which had been prepared for me, and congratulated myself upon the timely accident by which ! had escaped. another step before my fall, and the world had seen me no more and the death just avoided was of that very character which i had regarded as fabulous and frivolous in the tales respecting the inquisition. to the victims of its tyranny, there was the choice of death with its direst physical agonies, or death with its most hideous moral horrors. i had been reserved for the latter. by long suffering my nerves had been unstrung, until i trembled at the sound of my own voice, and had become in every respect a fitting subject for the species of torture which awaited me. which torture does the passage above reference? a. being eaten alive by rats b. being sliced open by a giant blade c. being killed by falling into a hole d. being burned alive
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