Isolate and discuss the rhetorical devices that appear in the following passage:"Can [former Representative Jack] Kemp or anyone believe that $27 million in 'humanitarian' aid would replace all that South Africa has done [to support Angolan rebels]?"-Anthony Lewis, New York Times
What will be an ideal response?
(Kemp sponsored a bill that gave $27 million in humanitarian aid to Jonas Savimbi's UNITA rebels for their fight against the government of Angola.) "Can anyone believe" suggests that the Kemp proposal is not to be taken seriously and is perhaps not taken seriously even by Kemp himself. The quotation marks around "humanitarian" serve to question whether the aid would be genuinely humanitarian.
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