Question 60

```Read the passage below and answer questions 58-62.
The fact that, no sooner had the sickles began to play than, the atmosphere suddenly felt as if cress would grow in it without other nourishment. It rubbed peopleʼs cheek like damp flannel when they walked abroad. The gusty, high warm wind: isolated raindrops started the windowpanes at remote distances; the sunlight would flap out like a quickly opened fan, throw the pattern out of the window upon the floor of the room in a milky, colorless shine and withdraw as suddenly as it had passed.```
The dominant literary device used in the passage is

  • A. Metaphor
  • B. Simile
  • C. Oxymoron
  • D. Hyperbole
Objective

Question details

Exam body
BUK
Subject
Literature in English
Year
2010/2011
Question no.
#60
Type
Objective

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