Question

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

Answer 1

Answer:

D)  understatement

Explanation:

"There were times" (Lines 58-63) The speaker is modest.

Understatement is a weaker phrase than the speaker or writer intends or what is intended. It is used for emphasis, irony, hedging, or comedy.