Question

How does the rhetorical technique used in the underlined text best develop the author's ideas? The author's use of overstatement exaggerates a well-known fact to emphasize men's perceived superiority. The author's use of irony emphasizes that men's desire to be superior is not an obscure or particularly interesting fact. The author's use of metaphor makes a creative and colorful comparison to emphasize the idea that men want to be superior. The author's use of allusion emphasizes that men's desire to be superior is similar to women's desire to be part of the women's movement.

Answer 1

The answer is B. The author’s use of irony emphasizes that men’s desire to be superior is not an obscure or particularly interesting fact.

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Answer 2

The author's use of irony emphasizes that men's desire to be superior is not an obscure or particularly interesting fact.

Step-by-step explanation:

The rhetorical technique known as irony refers to using words that express something other, and especially, the opposite of the literal meaning.

In this excerpt from A Room of One's Own, by Virginia Woolf, the author uses irony to emphasize that men's desire to be superior is not an obscure or particularly interesting fact, by ironically claiming that the "very interesting and obscure masculine complex" has had "so much influence upon the woman's movement." Of course, what she means is that the masculine complex is not interesting nor obscure.