Match each excerpt to the rhetorical devices it uses.
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1)satire
2)rhetorical questions
3)repetition

A)We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other
things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will
serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is
one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend
to win, and the others, too.
(President John F. Kennedy, "The Decision to go to the Moon")

B)"Cuss the doctor! What do we k'yer for him? Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side?
And ain't that a big enough majority in any town?"
(Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn)

C)Must I argue the wrongfulness of slavery? Is that a question for republicans? Is it to be settled
by the rules of logic and argumentation, as a matter beset with great difficulty, involving a
doubtful application of the principle of justice, hard to understand?
(Frederick Douglass, "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?")

B) Satire is used in this excerpt. Satire is a funny way to criticize the corruption and foolishness in society using humor, irony or exaggeration. The author applies humor in this excerpt.

C) And this excerpt presents rhetorical question. It is obvious from the all sentences of the excerpt.

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honeycomblistless honeycomblistless · Answer 2 · 2019-02-13T14:16:19+01:00

The answers to the question above would be the following ones:

A) The rhetorical device used here is repetition. President John F. Kennedy has chosen to repeat the same structures over and over again. We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade (...) not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve (...)".

B) The rhetorical device used here is satire. Satire is the use of humour, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity, particularly in the context of politics.

C) The rhetorical device used here is rhetorical question. Rhetorical questions are asked in order to make a statement. They do not expect any answer. Douglass believes that the wrongfulness of slavery is an issue that he expects everyone to be concerned with.