Isolate and discuss the rhetorical devices that appear in the following passage:"Notre Dame people like to point out that, unlike other [college football] powerhouses, their players must face tough admissions standards, shoulder the regular course load, and forget about being red-shirted to gain additional playing years. And, of course, it's a lot more fun to point out those things if your guys are out there stomping on 24-year-old golf-course management majors every Saturday, the way they used to."-Newsweek

What will be an ideal response?


Hyperbole; we expect there are football players for other teams who don't major in golf-course management and who are under twenty-four.

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