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Equality and the Future — Test

Question 6 • English Language Arts 10

Read the passage from A Room of One’s Own . She had no chance of learning grammar and logic, let alone of reading Horace and Virgil. She picked up a book now and then, one of her brother's perhaps, and read a few pages. But then her parents came in and told her to mend the stockings or mind the stew and not moon about with books and papers . They would have spoken sharply but kindly, for they were substantial people who knew the conditions of life for a woman and loved their daughter. Which rhetorical devices are used in the underlined portion of this text? Choose two correct answers.

Answer
A
allusion
B
understatement
C
parallel structure
D
metaphor
E
alliteration
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