Question

Read the following excerpt from Congresswoman Mink’s speech:

How will making English our official language promote unity when thousands of legal, tax-paying immigrants and citizens will be denied a fuller opportunity to gain needed information and services because they are of limited English? What is the overwhelming public policy need to punish the few?


What rhetorical device does Mink use?


figurative language

repetition

rhetorical questions

pathos

Answer 1

c. Rhetorical Question

Step-by-step explanation:

'What is the overwhelming public policy need to punish the few' as well as the previous question are both forms of rhetorical questions whose purpose is to emphasize a point

Answer 2

c) rhetorical questions

Step-by-step explanation:

To make her point, Congresswoman Mink asks a series of rhetorical questions to which no response is necessary. Rhetorical questions are used to sway an audience's opinion and strengthen an argument.