What rhetorical device is used in the sentence: The duties of a soldie

What rhetorical device is used in the sentence: The duties of a soldier are to protect his country and peel potatoes.

Anticlimax

Pun

metaphor

Transferred epithet

答案及解析：A选项， Anticlimax，渐降法，将一系列词语由大到小、由强到弱地排列。综上，A选项正确。B选项，pun, We must all hang together, or we shall all hangseparately.我们必须团结在一起，不然我们将一个地被绞死。利用一词多义，第一个hang表示“团结”，第二个hang表示“绞死”。C选项, metaphor暗喻，故排除。D选项，Transferred epithet移就，故排除。故正确选项为A。