Dictating his autobiography late in life, he commented with a crushing sense of despair on men's final release from earthly struggles.

Culture can be defined as___________________ . A: the coherent B: learned C: shared view of a group of people D: furnishing attidudes about what things are appropriate E: ranking what is important F: dictating bhavior

【单选题】He prefers______. (1998) A. to write his letters rather than dictating then B. to write his letters rather than dictate them C. writing his letters rather than dictate them D. writing his letters rather than have dictated them

PartII. Identify the rhetorical device employed in each of the sentences.Some of the sentences contain more than one (no more than two) type of the devices.（每小题2分，共20分）8. Dictating his autobiography late in life, he commented with a crushing sense of despair on men's final release from earthly struggles. A: Alliteration B: Antithesis C: Hyperbole D: Euphemism E: Irony F: Metaphor G: Metonymy H: Parallelism I: Personification J: Simile K: Synecdoche