Isolate and discuss the rhetorical devices that appear in the following passage:All that effort spent giving Kuwait back to the Kuwaitis was like taking a crime syndicate away from one Mafia boss and handing it to another. The Kuwaitis already own half the civilized world, and we've put them back in the driver's seat. Their so-called "justice" system is handing out cruel punishments to alleged collaborators, many of whom were simply trying to stay alive during the Iraqi occupation.
What will be an ideal response?
In our view, the first sentence is a rhetorical comparison; the remark about owning half the civilized world is hyperbole; "so-called" is a downplayer of sorts-the quotation marks around "justice" serve the same purpose of letting the reader know the word is not intended to be taken literally. The last part of that sentence is interesting: one way of staying alive, of course, was collaboration; shouldn't the real question be whether it was coerced or volunteered?
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