Question

Which rhetorical device best describes the example shown

When donna weems hit that home run in the softball semifinals, she broke her bat and all the school records

A. Personification
B. Analogy
C. Understatement
D. Zeugma

Answer 1

Answer: D. Zeugma.

Step-by-step explanation:

Zeugma is a rhetorical device in which two or more parts of a sentence are linked by a single common word. In the example, the word "break" is used to link Donna Weems' hitting a home run and her breaking school records.