Read this excerpt from "American identity crisis? What's an 'American' identity?" (2008) by Paul Wallis: A cultural identity is a sort of myth by definition. There are very few "pure" cultures left, but they're routinely upheld by advocates of the social equivalent of monocultures.
America, since the Melting Pot days, has been lugging around the Anglo-American image like a security blanket.

The author uses all BUT which stylistic technique?

sensory language
tone
mood
word choice

Read the excerpt from “man listening to disc.” to tommy potter for taking the time to join us on this breezy afternoon with his most unwieldy bass and to the esteemed arthur taylor who is somehow managing to navigate this crowd with his cumbersome drums. and i bow deeply to thelonious monk for figuring out a way to motorize—or whatever—his huge piano so he could be with us today. which of the following additional features would best enhance the reader’s understanding of this excerpt? a diagram showing the narrator’s route through the city a visual simulation of the man walking down the street audio samples of music by the specified musicians textbook chapters on the history of jazz musicians

1. a poem that tells a story irony 2. taking on human characteristics narrative 3. a direct comparison between two things personification 4. words that are opposite the thoughts in a speaker's mind simile 5. implied comparison introduced with "as" and "like idiom 6. one's own manner of speaking metaphor

Which of the following is not one of the part of speech