Isolate and discuss the rhetorical devices that appear in the following passage:We clearly can't trust the television networks, not when they've just spent two days interviewing young children on their feelings about the recent shootings at the elementary school. This attempt to wring every drop of human interest from the tragedy is either frighteningly cynical or criminally thoughtless regarding the damage that can be done both to the children interviewed and to children who see the interviews.
What will be an ideal response?
"We clearly can't" acts as a potential proof surrogate. "Wring every drop" is an exaggeration; the adverbs "frighteningly" and "criminally" approach hyperbole, especially the latter.
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