“Seven days without water makes one weak （week).” Which rhetorical device is used in this example？

What rhetorical device is used in the sentence He is an all__________purpose basket?

A.Pun.

B.Simile.

C.Metaphor.

D.Transferred epithet.

Which sentences use the rhetorical device of understatement?

A、fading fast, over the hill, out to pasture, down the drain, finished, out of date.

B、For the most part the elderly struggle to exist in an inhospitable world.

C、Voluntary hospitals are well known for dumping the “Medicare patient” into municipal hospitals…

D、This feature objectivity is nothing less than the editor’s abdication of responsibility and is just as dangerous as the long and subtle processing of fact to fit a policy that characterizes certain weekly magazines.

Which of the following sentences use the rhetorical device of hyperbole?

A、She smiled that slow dragging smile.

B、Children these days would bust out of sheetmetal clothes.

C、Momma hadn’t thought that taking off my dress in front of Mrs. Flowers would kill me stone dead.

D、What on earth did one put on to go to Mrs. Flowers’ house?

Which of the following sentences use the rhetorical device of hyperbole?

A、Death would be too kind and brief.

B、I wanted to gobble up the room entire and take it to Bailey, who would help me analyze and enjoy it.

C、With the cold lemonade they were sufficient for childhood’s lifelong diet.

D、I knew from listening to a thousand preachers that she was nearing the end of her reading, and I hadn’t really heard, heard to understand, a single word.

Which of the following sentences use the rhetorical device of allusion?

A、… and my image of her would have been shattered like the unmendable Humpty-Dumpty.

B、Pride is a sin.And according to the Good Book, it goeth before a fall.

C、… I heard the soft-voiced Mrs. Flowers and the textured voice of my grandmother merging and meltin

Which of the following sentences use the rhetorical device of metaphor?

A、They were interrupted from time to time by giggles that must have come from Mrs. Flowers.

B、One summer afternoon, sweet-milk fresh in my memory, she stopped at the Store to buy provisions.

C、The chifforobe was a maze.

D、Children these days would bust out of sheetmetal clothes.

Which of the following sentences use the rhetorical device of metaphor?

A、I had an impulse to climb up and try one of those springy beds, but that would have meant using up more energy when I had none to spare, …

B、By midday we had passed the ten thousand foot mark, but I am not really able to recall the incidents of these hours, for red lights had long since begun to dance in front of my eyes and …

C、The bamboo here had thinned out a little, and on the heights of the two mountains above we could see the curious productions of the alpine zones, giant heather, giant groundsel and giant lobelias.

D、After twenty minutes my legs had turned to water again and against the evident displeasure of the guides I demanded lunch.

Which question does the author try to answer?

A．What past experience is useful for businesses?

B．How much time is needed for making plans?

C．How can changes be made in businesses?

D．What kinds of employees are the best?

Which of the following is "an illusion"?

A．Britain protects animals used in research better than Japan and China.

B．China has issued guidelines governing the use of animals in research.

C．Japan has less comprehensive data on animal testing than America.

D．America conducts fewer experiments on animals than Britain.

Of the three resistors used in the trials,which would be considered an ohmic shows that resistor B is not an ohmic device but not a thermistor?

A.Resistor A only

B.Resistor B only

C.Resistor C only

D.Resistor A and Resistor B only