Question

Read the excerpt from the conclusion of the letter to the editor. We need to urge our city planners to say goodbye to the urban sprawl that has engulfed our nation like a tidal wave in the last few decades, and instead build more traditional mixed-use neighborhoods that were once the building blocks of city infrastructure in our nation. As the authors of Suburban Nation wrote: "We shape our cities and then our cities shape us. The choice is ours whether we build subdivisions that debase the human spirit or neighborhoods that nurture sociability and bring out the best in our nature.” Which rhetorical device does the letter writer use in this paragraph? allusion referencing a major claim referencing a counterargument repetition

Answer 1

The correct answer is B, referencing a major claim.

By quoting the phrase of Suburban Nation, clearly, we find a major claim, using the reference as an argument to support the idea. There are no repetitions or counter-arguments.

A rhetorical device uses different words in a certain way to transmit a better significance or to persuade to do something, trying to create a response in the reader.

Among the most common used rethorical devices, we find analogy, allusion, antithesis, hyperbole, onomatopoeia, and parallelism.