Bishop uses rhetorical devices in her poems "One Art" and "Filling Station". Rhetorical devices are word patterns that create emphasis and stir emotion. One rhetorical device Bishop uses is imperatives. Which option below demonstrates an imperative?

a. Loss something every day.

b. I lost my mother's watch.

c. I lost two cities, lovely ones.

d. All of the above.

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Alana Beltran

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27 August, 01:18

Bishop uses rhetorical devices in her poems "One Art" and "Filling Station". Rhetorical devices are word patterns that create emphasis and stir emotion. One rhetorical device Bishop uses is imperatives. Which option below demonstrates an imperative?

a. Loss something every day.

b. I lost my mother's watch.

c. I lost two cities, lovely ones.

d. All of the above.

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Natalie Mason · Answer 1

If in A it says Lose something every day, then the correct answer which demonstrates an imperative would be A.

The other sentences don't have an imperative, which is a form of an order.