Isolate and discuss the rhetorical devices that appear in the following passage:From a letter to the editor: "In Sacramento, money talks, which is why our politicians kowtow to the local developers. So much for voting for honest people whose primary concern should be people, not money."-Sacramento Bee
What will be an ideal response?
"Kowtow," though its original touch-the-forehead-to-the-ground meaning is fading among all except those who read novels about the nineteenth century, still carries the sense of obsequious deference that brings it close to hyperbole here. The whole tone of the last sentence is slanted; it insinuates both that politicians are dishonest and that their primary concern is money (innuendo, and not very subtle).
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