Questions 44-55. Read the following passage from Ralph Ellison's Living With Music (1955) carefully before you choose your answers
In the sentence beginning "There were times" (lines 77-84), the speaker employs all of the following EXCEPT
Select one:
O a. concrete diction
O b. parallel syntax
O c. simile
O d. understatement
e. onomatopoeia

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chapter i -- paris: september, 1792

a surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures, animated by vile passions and by the lust of vengeance and of hate.

during the greater part of the day the guillotine had been kept busy at its ghastly work: all that france had boasted of in the past centuries, of ancient names, and blue blood, had paid toll to her desire for liberty and for fraternity.

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