Isolate and discuss the rhetorical devices that appear in the following passage:"Although you were not selected to receive the award, I congratulate you for your achievements at California State University, Chico."-Excerpt from a letter written by a university president and sent to an unsuccessful contender for a campus award.
What will be an ideal response?
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