“We must get the American public to look past the glitter beyond the showmanship—
to reality, to the hard substance of things. And we will do that not so much with
speeches that sound good as with speeches that are good and sound.”
These lines from Mario Cuomo’s 1984 speech to the Democratic National
Convention are an example of
a. a simile
b. a metaphor
c. mnemonic phrasing
d. alliteration
Answer: c,
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