Rhetorical Devices and Figurative Language in a Speech
Question 5 • Language Arts 9 (B) - SHARP 2026
Read the excerpt from "The Danger of a Single Story” by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.Stories matter. Many stories matter. Stories have been used to dispossess and to malign, but stories can also be used to empower and to humanize. Stories can break the dignity of a people, but stories can also repair that broken dignity.
Answer
A
It describes why certain stories are better than others.
B
It suggests that authors should write better books.
C
It accuses some writers of unintentionally causing harm.
D
It shows why having diversity in storytelling is so important.
Explanation
Adichie explains that stories can either harm people by dispossessing or maligning them, or help by empowering and humanizing them. This contrast shows why it matters to have more than one kind of story about people and communities. Choice D, the importance of diversity in storytelling, best captures that idea.
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