In this section you have eight short passages. After each passage, you will find several questions based on the passage. First, read a passage, and then answer the questions based on it. You are required to select your answers based on the contents of the passage and opinion of the author only.
Passage:
We shall go on to the end; we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and strength in the air, we shall defend our island whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills. We shall never surrender, and even if this island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our empire beyond the seas would carry on the struggle, until the New World steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of the Old.
Question: The passage consists of repetitive patterns in syntax and vocabulary. The effect of this style is that it
- Areveals the speaker's defects in giving a speech.
- Bproduces the impression of bad poetry.
- Ccoveys the speaker's helpless situation.
- Dreinforces the speaker's basic intention.
Explanation
The anaphora ('we shall fight...') builds rhetorical force, reinforcing the resolve never to surrender.