Neither. Dormant and recessive are not synonyms because their definitions are not similar, nor are they antonyms because they aren't opposites, either. Dormant means to sleep. Recessive refers to a trait that is usually masked by a dominant trait.
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The rhetorical device that the author use in the line so the readers feel the terror that he experiences is : C. anticlimax
when the character's pocket got emptied out, readers expect something more important will drop. But it's only a piece of bread
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4) a question with more than one answer! :D
