What sound device is used in this excerpt from "how the animals lost their tails and got them back traveling from philadelphia to medicine hat"? there were sixty-six representatives on the committee and they decided to call it the committee of sixty-six. it was a distinguished committee and when they all sat together holding their mouths under their noses and cleaning their ears and scratching themselves under the chin looking thoughtful (just like a distinguished committee) then anybody would say just to look at them, "this must be quite a distinguished committee."