"fungals" is an unfortunate employment of what rhetorical device?

"Fungals" is an unfortunate employment of a rhetorical device named Malaphorism.

Explanation:

A malaphor is an amalgamation of malapropism. It is the substitution of an incorrect word with another word that sounds the same. It is often identified as informal term made up with two aphorisms, idioms or clichés. Malaphor and a metaphor is often thought to be the same. But they are different. The latter is a figure of speech in which the context of phrase or word is not applicable in real life.

1. all of the above

2. sensory language

question:

it's when i'm weary of considerations, and life is too much like a pathless wood where your face burns and tickles with the cobwebs broken across it, and one eye is weeping from a twig's having lashed across it open

answer to question #1: the simile that occurs in the text given (lines 43-47) is: ''life is too much like a pathless ''

explanation: a simile is a comparison of one thing with another thing and it is used to make a vivid description. it uses like or as. in the text, we can understand that the person is feeling weary of considerations and because of this, the person compares ''life'' to ''a pathless wood''.

answer to question #2: in this text we can understand that the word frost could mean anger, annoyance and bitterness, due to the fact that the person is stating that he/she is feeling weary of considerations and compares life to a pathless wood.

explanation: the word frost means coldness and something covered by ice crystals but looking at the comparison made in this text, we can understand that the word frost could mean anger, annoyance and bitterness, due to the fact that the person is stating that he/she is feeling weary of considerations therefore he/she compares life to a pathless wood.