Question

Read this excerpt from "Hope, Despair, and Memory" by Elie Wiesel and answer the question. Of course we could try to forget the past. Why not? Is it not nature for a human being to repress what causes him pain, what causes him shame? Like the body, memory protects its wounds. When day breaks after a sleepless night, one’s ghosts must withdraw; the dead are ordered back to their graves. But for the first time in history, we could not bury our dead. We bear their graves within ourselves. For us, forgetting was never an option. In the above excerpt, what literary or rhetorical device is used? extended metaphor ethos hyperbole parallelism

Answer 1

Answer: A) Extended metaphor.

Explanation: a metaphor is a figure of speech that consists in making a direct comparison between elements that aren't obviously related, in order to create an image in the reader's mind. In the given excerpt from "Hope, Despair, and Memory" by Elie Wiesel, we can see an example of an extended metaphor that compares memories with ghosts (or dead), that could not be buried (meaning that forgetting was not an option).