1、单选题：
Several vacationers at the luxurious Richelieu Apartments there held a hurricane party to watch the storm from their spectacular vantage point. Which rhetorical device is used in this sentence? ( )
选项：
A:metaphor
B:personification
C:transferred epithet
D:simile
答案: 【transferred epithet】

2、单选题：
It seized a 600,000-gallon Gulfport oil tank and dumped it 3.5 miles away. Which rhetorical device is used in this sentence? ( )
选项：
A:simile
B:metaphor
C:personification
D:transferred epithet
答案: 【personification】

3、单选题：
Which phrase of words matches “scud”? ( )
选项：
A:to cut or wound with a sweeping stroke as with a knife
B:intense anger
C:to beat or hit with repeated blows, especially with the fist
D:to run or move swiftly
答案: 【to run or move swiftly】

4、单选题：
Which phrase of words matches “swipe”? ( )
选项：
A:to climb, crawl or clamber hurriedly
B:to go or pass suddenly from sight
C:to throw in a gliding path
D:a hard sweeping blow
答案: 【a hard sweeping blow】

5、单选题：
Which phrase of words matches “sprawl”? ( )
选项：
A:a loud deep cry
B:to spread the limbs in a relaxed, awkward or unnatural position
C:to push with sudden force
D:to cut or wound with a sweeping stroke as with a knife
答案: 【to spread the limbs in a relaxed, awkward or unnatural position】