Isolate and discuss the rhetorical devices that appear in the following passage:"If we stop the shuttle program now, there are seven astronauts who will have died for nothing."-An unidentified U.S. congressman, after the space shuttle disaster of January 1986

What will be an ideal response?


This statement uses hyperbole to exaggerate the situation.

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What will be an ideal response?

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What will be an ideal response?

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The __________ branch of Islam has the most tolerant attitude toward homosexuality

a. Al-Qaeda b. Shia c. Sunni d. Sufi e. none of the above

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