How, then, could it [Shakespeare's genius] have been born among women whose work began, according to Professor Trevelyan, almost before they were out of the nursery, who were forced to it by their parents and held to it by all the power of law and custom? Yet genius of a sort must have existed among women as it must have existed among the working classes. Now and again an Emily Brontë or a Robert Burns blazes out and proves its presence.
-A Room of One's Own,
Virginia Woolf
Which statement best explains how a rhetorical device
supports the central idea?
O An allusion is used to refer to the central idea.
O Parallel structure is used to imply the central idea of
the passage.
O A rhetorical question suggests the central idea.
Understatement emphasizes the importance of the
central idea.
Answer:
A rhetorical question suggests the central idea.
Explanation:
