Question

Read the excerpt from Mark Twain's "The £1,000,000 Bank-Note". Well, I was perfectly honest and square with her; told her I hadn't a cent in the world but just the million-pound note she'd heard so much talk about, and it didn't belong to me, and that started her curiosity; and then I talked low, and told her the whole history right from the start, and it nearly killed her laughing. What in the nation she could find to laugh about I couldn't see, but there it was; every half-minute some new detail would fetch her, and I would have to stop as much as a minute and a half to give her a chance to settle down again. Why, she laughed herself lame--she did, indeed; I never saw anything like it. I mean I never saw a painful story--a story of a person's troubles and worries and fears--produce just that kind of effect before. Which rhetorical device is demonstrated in the excerpt? A. hyperbole B. allusion C. metaphor D. oxymoron

Answer 1

Answer:

The rhetorical device which is use in the excerpt is option D. Oxymoron.

Explanation:

Oxymoron is a contradiction of two terms, two opposites ideas. It is used to create emphasis, to draw attention to something or to create a sense of drama for the reader. In the excerpt this retorical device appears when the character says "told her I hadn't a cent in the world but just the million-pound note".

Answer 2

Answer:

A) Hyperbole

Explanation:

I took the test and got a 100%