Question

President george w. bush, in eulogizing president reagan, stated "when ronald reagan was a child he knew the world as a place of open plains, quiet streets, gas-lit rooms, and carriages drawn by horses." which language device was president bush using when he said "carriages drawn by horses"?

Answer 1

President George W. Bush, in eulogizing President Reagan, stated when Ronald Reagan was a child he "knew the world as a place of open plains, quiet streets, gas-lit rooms, and carriages drawn by horse." President George W. Bush use inversion as a language device when he said "carriages drawn by horses".