Question

President George W. Bush, in eulogizing President Reagan, stated, "When Ronald Reagan was a child he knew the world as a place of open plains, quiet streets, gas-lit rooms, and carriages drawn by horses." Which language device was President Bush using when he said, "carriages drawn by horses"?

Answer 1

Question options:

He was using personification.

He was using metaphor.

He was using inversion.

He was using antithesis

Answer:

He was using inversion

Step-by-step explanation:

An inverted sentence or inversion works by inverting a sentence in a normally subject-first language such that the predicate (verb) comes before the subject (noun).

Inversion, also known as “anastrophe,” works as a literary technique or device whereby the normal order of words is reversed/inverted so as to achieve a particular effect of emphasis or literary purpose.