the passage from A Room of One's Own
The history of men's opposition to women's
emancipation
is more interesting perhaps than the story
of that emancipation
itself. An amusing book might be
made of it if some young
student at Girton or Newnham
would collect
examples and deduce a theory,-but she
would need thick
gloves on her hands, and bars to
protect her of solid gold.
Which rhetorical device is used in this text?
se irony alliteration
alliteration
overstatement
understatement