Which rhetorical devices are used in the underlined portion of
this passage? select two options.
allusion
metaphor
overstatement
understatement
parallel structure

Answer:

The effectiveness of Mortimer's style in “The Time Traveler's Guide to Elizabethan England,” is seen throughout the narrative.

Explanation:

Ian Mortimer in his novel “The Time Traveler's Guide to Elizabethan England,” divulges a country where the life expectancy is in the early thirties, where people starve to death and where Catholics are persecuted for their faith. Despite of all this, the country brings into view some of its finest writing in the English language, brings into view some of its most splendid architecture, and finds Elizabeth's subjects settling in America and circumnavigating the globe.

The author welcomes the reader to a country that is, the very crucible of the modern world, in all its contradictions. The author’s conversational style paints the social history and makes the reader familiar with the Elizabethan landscape. He covers the big and small changes and the state's efforts to assert its control.

Famous for his use of anecdotes, this piece of work is not an exception. He describes in details the plight of women especially, of the lower classes. This book of details can seem to be overwhelming. Drawing a contrast with the middle ages he falls into a dilemma whether to place the reader in the moment and to point out the characteristics that define the age.

At the end, Mortimer calls the Elizabethan age as the age of opportunity in which many fruitful changes took place. His writing style helps to present the lives of ordinary people in history and to bring history to life.