Question

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

Answer 1

D. Metonymy

Step-by-step explanation:

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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