Read this sentence from paragraph 2. Yet, every so often the oath is taken amidst gathering clouds and raging storms.

Which statement BEST describes the use of a rhetorical technique in this sentence?

A. Figurative language helps to emphasize the argument.

B. Repetition shows that storms and clouds are very similar.

C. Allusion reminds the listener of the challenge of global warming.

D. Irony is used since it is not always stormy and cloudy.

Read the passage. when i consider how my light is spent ere half my days, in this dark world and wide, and that one talent which is death to hide, lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent to serve therewith my maker, and present my true account, lest he returning chide; “doth god exact day labor, light denied? ” in line 7 of sonnet xix by john milton, the speaker asks, “doth god exact day labor, light denied? ” what does his question mean? why must god make us suffer to work? what shall one charge god to work in the dark? how does god expect him to work when he is blind? is god trying me?