The correct answer is:
D) anaphora.
Anaphora is the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses or sentences. In this passage, the repeated phrase "and that" serves this function.
At such a time I found out for certain, that this bleak place overgrown with nettles was the churchyard; . . . and that the dark flat wilderness beyond the churchyard, intersected with dykes and mounds and gates, with scattered cattle feeding on it, was the marshes; and that the low leaden line beyond was the river; and that the distant savage lair from which the wind was rushing, was the sea; and that the small bundle of shivers growing afraid of it all and beginning to cry, was Pip."
The repetition of the phrase and that in the passage from Chapter 1 is an example of
Question 11 options:
A)
personification.
B)
simile.
C)
metaphor.
D)
anaphora.
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