Isolate and discuss the rhetorical devices that appear in the following passage:"... despite the idealist yearnings in the body politic that this [the baby boom] generation supposedly epitomizes, the darker side of the lust for power is still present. Just witness the saga of the collapse of the once-promising career of Mayor Roger Hedgecock [former mayor of San Diego]."-Larry Remer and Gregory Dennis
What will be an ideal response?
The passage insinuates an almost obsessive desire for power on the part of Hedgecock.
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a. True b. False
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a. Men in mid-life crisis. b. Women c. Widows d. Young men