Read the excerpt from "Among Free Men." Whenever any American's life is taken by another American unnecessarily—whether it is done in the name of the law or in defiance of the law, by one man or a gang, in cold blood or in passion, in an attack of violence or in response to violence—whenever we tear at the fabric of life which another man has painfully and clumsily woven for himself and his children, the whole nation is degraded. Which rhetorical device is used in this excerpt?
Answer
A
irony, in the list of juxtaposed conditions
B
allusion, in reference to the country
C
alliteration, in the repetition of the word "violence"
D
metaphor, in the image "fabric of life"
Explanation
The phrase “fabric of life” compares a person’s life to cloth that can be woven and torn. This is a metaphor because it describes life in terms of something else without using “like” or “as.” The repeated word “violence” is not alliteration, which depends on repeated beginning sounds.
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