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'There kneels a jigger, a louse, a weevil, a flea, a bedbug! He is mistletoe, a parasite that lives on the trees of other people's lives!'
The speaker uses a string of
  • A. hyperbole
  • B. parables
  • C. metaphors
  • D. riddles
  • E. understatements.
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A trade, Sir, that, i hope, i may use with a safe conscience; which is, indeed, Sir, a mender of bad soles.
The passage is referring to a
  • A. religious preacher who saves sinful souls
  • B. physician who cures diseases of the sole
  • C. workman who repears shoes
  • D. trader who prevents bad sales
  • E. trader who cheats customers during sales.
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At the end of that week I set off for Caxley. It was a grey day, with the downs covered in thick mist. The trees dripped sadly along the road to the market town, and the wet pavements were even more depressing.
The setting is best described as
  • A. bracing
  • B. dismal
  • C. exhilarating
  • D. delightful
  • E. pleasant.
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A deliberate use of exaggeration for humour or emphasis is known as
  • A. exclamation
  • B. litotes
  • C. metonymy
  • D. hyperbole
  • E. antonym.
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'The pen is mightier than the sword' is an example of

  • A. metonymy
  • B. antonomasia
  • C. comparison
  • D. synecdoche
  • E. paradox.
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