What rhetorical device is applied in the sentence "...the prospects of a good catch looked bleak. It was not at all possible to catch a large amount of fish"？

A、metaphor

B、allusion

C、oxymoron

D、exaggeration

A、oxymoron

B、allusion

C、metaphor

D、pun

A、repetition

B、alliteration

C、climax

D、parallelism

A、hyperbole

B、simile

C、metaphor

D、personification

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B、metaphor

C、alliteration

D、hyperbole

A、They look like figures representing gluttony in a medieval morality play, and you expect ladies in wimples to appear and clowns dressed like monkeys.

B、All at one time it can be brave, pitiful, squalid, heroic, messy, chivalrous, and obscene.

C、She set her white face to him, passive like a helpless animal.

D、They lift the letters and carry them off like stretchers.

A、Clara did not mind the cold, for she liked anything that was not small and cramped and heartlessly cosy…

B、She handled her apparatus with the efficient familiarity with which other women handle their baking boards and rolling pins…

C、Personally, I don’t care if they hybridize onions till they are as big as your head and come up through the snow…

D、What matters if such peas taste like boiled paper wads?

A、A slice of my mother-in-law’s apple pie will satiate you far better than a whole bakery pie.

B、But who eats with his eyes?

C、What matters if such peas taste like boiled paper wads?

D、Yet, if people don’t eat onions because they taste like onions, what in the name of Luther Burbank do they eat them for?

A、Cake mixes, too, come ready-prepared—like cement and not much better-tasting compared with true cake.

B、Vegetables with crisp and crackling texture emerge as mush, slippery and stringy as hair nets simmered in Vaseline.

C、Everything, pretty much, tastes like the mosses of tundra, dug up in mid-winter.

D、Handsome comestibles you put down in the summer come out looking very much like the corpses of woolly mammoths recovered from the last Ice Age.

A．Blair continues to promote the idea of achieving self-fulfillment through work.

B．Blair opposes his people to be workaholic and has launched such a campaign.

C．Blair sets a perfect example as a hard-working person for his people in the UK.

D．Blair is most unwilling to have his people labouring as slaves.