Which rhetorical devices are used in the underlined portion
of this text? select two options.
allusion
read the passage from a room of one's own.
she had no chance of learning grammar and logic, let
alone of reading horace and virgil. she picked up a book
now and then, one of her brother's perhaps, and read a few
pages. but then her parents came in and told her to mend
the stockings or mind the stew and not moon about with
books and papers. they would have spoken sharply but
kindly, for they were substantial people who knew the
conditions of life for a woman and loved their daughter.
alliteration
metaphor
i understatement
parallel structure