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Analyzing the Use of Rhetoric, Part 2

Question 2 • PARTA - EVP: PGCPS ENGLISH 12 OC (FALL2026) 791113

Read the excerpt from The Republic by Plato. But in reality justice was such as we were describing, being concerned however, not with the outward man, but with the inward, which is the true self and concernment of man: for the just man does not permit the several elements within him to interfere with one another, or any of them to do the work of others,—he sets in order his own inner life, and is his own master and his own law, and at peace with himself.

Answer
A
asyndeton
B
antithesis
C
chiasmus
D
synecdoche

Explanation

The excerpt contrasts opposing ideas: justice is not concerned with the “outward man” but with the “inward.” This balanced contrast is antithesis, so the correct choice is antithesis. The passage is not mainly using asyndeton, chiasmus, or synecdoche.

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