Isolate and discuss the rhetorical devices that appear in the following passage:As if they alone were concerned with clean air and pure water, these self-anointed environmentalists question whether there will be nitrate pollution from the new subdivision and whether Madrone Creek can accommodate storm runoff from the development. Their no-growth ideas are familiar to everyone in the community.
What will be an ideal response?
"As if they alone were concerned" insinuates both that others are concerned and a smugness on the part of the people in question. "Self-anointed" is a standard slanter; nearly anybody who takes up a cause is self-anointed, in a manner of speaking. "No-growth ideas" is probably exaggeration, although probably not hyperbole, and downplay. If this entire passage were rewritten in neutral language, you couldn't tell which side of the issue the author was on.
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