Isolate and discuss the rhetorical devices that appear in the following passage:Perhaps the "religious leaders" who testified at the state board of education's public hearing on textbooks think they speak for all Christians, but they do not.

What will be an ideal response?


Note especially how quotation marks around "religious leaders" serves to question the credentials of those individuals.

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