Reread the passage with the new line:
“Boomers. Karens. Debbie Downers. We all know them. We all despise them. These are the ones whose life’s calling is to rid education of the plague known as technology. They’re like the dial-up internet of the 90s that they cling to desperately–old, slow, and quite noisy. They insist on a return to “the good old days,” where math is calculated by abacus, and you have to know how to calculate by hand a2 + b2 = c2 because “you won’t always have a calculator”. This is the generation that champions mindlessly staring at textbooks from 1965 while copying word-for-word on thousands of sheets of loose-leaf paper that will most likely end up in the cavernous depths of a backpack next to a moldy peanut butter sandwich while a child insists, 'I turned it in. You must have lost it.'
If the author had added this sentence, “They’re like the dial-up internet of the 90s that they cling to desperately–old, slow, and quite noisy,” which literary device would they have used?
Question 9 options:
The sentence is a personification because it assigns human qualities to dial-up internet.
The sentence is a simile comparing people to dial-up internet in order to show how outdated their beliefs are.
The sentence is a hyperbole because it's an over-exaggeration of the uses of dial-up internet.
The sentence is a paradox because the words in the sentence contradict themselves.
1 answer
The correct answer is:
The sentence is a simile comparing people to dial-up internet in order to show how outdated their beliefs are.
The phrase "They're like the dial-up internet of the 90s" uses "like" to directly compare the individuals described (Boomers, Karens, Debbie Downers) to dial-up internet, emphasizing their outdatedness and cumbersome nature.
