1. Writing skills: language usage

2. Rhetorical devices: 1) irony; 2）rhetorical question; 3) onomatopoeia 4)synecdoche 5) metonymy; 6) anti-climax; 7) alliteration; 8)euphemism

3. Stylistic features: objective description

Identify the rhetorical devices in the following sentences.

1. Whenever my husband has a bad day at the office, he hits the bottle. ( )

2. There sits my animal (instead of “dog”) guarding the door to the henhouse.

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3. He was such a marvelous teacher that whenever he recognized a spark of genius you could be sure he’d water it. ( )

Key:

1. metonymy;2. synecdoche;3.irony

Tell why the following narration is well-written.

Early in the morning, a peasant came along and saw him, he went out onto the ice and hammered a hole in it with his heavy wooden shoe, and carried the duckling home to his wife. There, it soon reviewed. The children wanted to play with it. But the ducking thought they were going to ill use him and rushed in and he frightened to the milk-pan, and the milk spurted out all over the room. The woman shrieked and threw up her hands. Then it flew to the butter-cask and down into the meal cub and out again. Oh, just imagine what it looked like by this time. The woman screamed and tried to hit it with the tongs, and the children tumbled over one another in trying to catch it, and they screamed with laughter.

Key:

This passage includes the basic elements of a narrative, i.e., time, place, persons and the development. The author can arouse the reader’s curiosity and make the reader eager to know the end of the story by vivid narration.

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