Answer:
Idiom
Explanation:
The options you were given are the following:
- allusion
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apostrophe
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hyperbole
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idiom
Idioms are phrases that don't have a literal meaning. This means that we can't conclude what a phrase means based on the meanings of words that make it up. We simply have to learn what these phrases mean.
An example of an idiom is <em>in one ear and out the other</em><em>.</em> This doesn't mean that something enters through one and exits through the other ear. Actually, this expression refers to an instance when someone ignores, dismisses, or forgets something almost immediately after being told. In this case, Dahl's antagonist keeps forgetting Billy's name instantly after hearing it.
Assuming
that the essay is the epic poem from around 1000 CE focusing on Beowulf in a third
person narrative:
<span>“A
man would roar, "I'll steal their gold and burn their meadhall!"
shaking his sword as if the tip were afire, and a man with eyes like two pins
would say, "Do it now, Cowface! I think you're not even the man your
father was!" The people would laugh. I would back away into the darkness,
furious at my stupid need to spy on them, and I would glide to the next camp of
men, and I'd hear the same.”</span>
