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The Classical Period — Test

Question 13 • English 4

Read the sentence. He is obsessed with completing his album; he eats, sleeps, drinks music. Which rhetorical device is used in this sentence?

Answer
A
synecdoche
B
zeugma
C
asyndeton
D
metonymy

Explanation

The sentence lists three actions—“eats, sleeps, drinks”—without using a conjunction such as “and.” Leaving out a conjunction in a series is asyndeton, so the correct choice is asyndeton.

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