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lesson pretestMultiple Choice

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Question 9 • Language Arts 9

Read the quotation from "The Danger of a Single Story” by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Stories can break the dignity of a people, but stories can also repair that broken dignity. Which rhetorical device is used in the quotation?

Answer
A
zeugma
B
antithesis
C
synecdoche
D
irony

Explanation

The quotation sets two contrasting effects of stories against each other: they can “break” dignity, but they can also “repair” it. This balanced contrast is antithesis. The statement is not ironic, nor does it use one part to represent a whole or apply one word to two different ideas.

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