X. Identify the rhetorical device being used toslantthese sentences (to influence the reader or hearer's perception, attitude, or belief). Pay special attention to underlined portions.

__________ 1. (Embarrassed old-fashioned husband): "Yes, my wife works. She's acareer girl."

(Wife, irritated with her husband's fibbing about her job): "I've got a career all right. My 'career'is squeezing jelly into donuts."

A. rhetorical analogy

B. stereotype

C. sarcasm

__________ 2. Parents who are strict with their kids about curfews and doing homework are fascists.

A. hyperbole

B. innuendo

C. stereotype

__________ 3. Doctors Fanelli and Peck recommended wearing face masks to prevent the spread of COVID-19. But I'm not certain of how much they know; they each got their degrees at South Texas State Medical College

A. rhetorical analogy

B. innuendo

C. downplayer

_________ 4. Famous politician: "We need immigration reforms to close the borders of this country because the migrants coming are crossing illegally, using drugs, some of them are rapists,

some are murderers, even if some of them are good people." A. euphemism

B. dysphemism

C. stereotype

__________ 5. Politician: "We must support that country unquestioningly because it has the most moral army in the world."

A. hyperbole

B. euphemism

C. dysphemism

__________ 6. Television news person: "But did you have to be paid $675,000 for three speeches to the Goldman Sachs Wall Street Investment Bank?

__________ 7. Newspaper humorist Dave Barry once wrote that "having kids is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain."

A. rhetorical analogy

B. dysphemism

C. innuendo

__________ 8. It's obviously true that global warming is a story made up to scare people away from using oil and gasoline. After all, it's cold! It's been a very cold, snowy winter!

A. A proof surrogate

B. An innuendo

C. A downplayer

__________ 9.Skeptical newspaper writer: "A few years ago, the debt got so bad that even Congress was embarrassed."

A. downplayer

B. rhetorical analogy

C. innuendo

__________ 10. The spider monkey is an endangered species, and we all know that the only explanation is that they're just so aggressive that people shoot them.

A. Dysphemism

B. Innuendo

C. A proof surrogate