<span>C) By bringing to mind more common associations with Shakespeare, the host is emphasizing the remarkableness of Bates’ story.
The host points out common situations where people would have interacted with Shakespeare--in school or in fancy theatres. This helps make what Bates has done stand out as even more remarkable, because no one would ever think of prisons when they first think of Shakespeare. </span>
The answer is characterization.
Answer:
The figurative language used in this sentence is: oxymoron.
Explanation:
By definition, a crowd is the gathering of a large number of people. However, in the sentence we are analyzing here, the speaker says there was a "small crowd". The two words have, therefore, opposite meanings - a "small large number of people," so to speak.
This is an example of oxymoron, a type of figurative language that puts together two words with opposite meanings. In context, however, the words can be understood. Although crowds are made up of a large number of people, some crowds can have many more people than others. Thus, the idea of a small crowd is understandable.