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QuizMultiple Choice

Rhetorical Devices and Figurative Language in a Speech

Question 1 • Recovery Content Language Arts 9 - Quarter 2 - 2026/27

Read the excerpt from "A Latina Judge’s Voice” by Sonia Sotomayor.In at least the last five years the majority of nominated judges the Senate delayed more than one year before confirming or never confirming were women or minorities. I need not remind this audience that Judge Paez of your home Circuit, the Ninth Circuit, has had the dubious distinction of having had his confirmation delayed the longest in Senate history.

Answer
A
antithesis
B
irony
C
metonymy
D
zeugma

Explanation

Calling Judge Paez’s record a “dubious distinction” is ironic: a distinction usually suggests an honor, but here it refers to the undesirable record of having his confirmation delayed the longest in Senate history. The contrast between the positive-sounding phrase and the negative achievement signals irony.

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