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The line "in conversation it was obtain'd rather by the use of the ears than of the tongue" uses the rhetorical technique of: A. personification B. metaphor C. simile D. metonymy E. synecdoche
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The line "in conversation it was obtain'd rather by the use of the ears than of the tongue" uses the rhetorical technique of:

A. personification
B. metaphor
C. simile
D. metonymy
E. synecdoche

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D. Metonymy

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Metonymy is a figure of speech in which a thing or concept is referred to by the name of something closely associated with that thing or concept.

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