The rhetorical technique used in this excerpt is 1). Shift
2). Understatement
3). Logos
4). Parallelism

Read the excerpt from Prime Minister Winston Churchill's "Their Finest Hour" speech, delivered to the United Kingdom’s House of Commons in 1940.

During the first four years of the last war the Allies experienced nothing but disaster and disappointment. That was our constant fear: one blow after another, terrible losses, frightful dangers. Everything miscarried. And yet at the end of those four years the morale of the Allies was higher than that of the Germans, who had moved from one aggressive triumph to another, and who stood everywhere triumphant invaders of the lands into which they had broken.

Read the excerpt below and answer the question. she dwelt among the untrodden waysbeside the springs of dove, a maid whom there were none to praiseand very few to love: a violet by a mossy stonehalf hidden from the eye! fair as a star, when only oneis shining in the sky. she lived unknown, and few could knowwhen lucy ceased to be; but she is in her grave, and, oh, the difference to me! (wordsworth, "she dwelt among the untrodden ways")which option best explains how the choice of the word oh in the final stanza contributes to the poem's meaning? it was selected to create a regular end rhyme. it was selected to establish assonance in the line. it was selected to maintain the line's iambic structure. it was selected to stress the poet's sense of loss.

The theme of the first seven years is consistent with characteristics of the time in which it was written. what is consistent about the era and the story’s plot?

The description of the house in this excerpt gives an example of