Question

Read the excerpt from "Choice: A Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.” by Alice Walker.

We loved the land and worked the land, but we never owned it; and even if we bought land, as my great-grandfather did after the Civil War, it was always in danger of being taken away, as his was, during the period following Reconstruction.

Which rhetorical device does the author use in this excerpt?

antithesis
metonymy
synecdoche
zeugma

Answer 1

Answer: Antithesis

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Answer 2

Answer: The rhetorical device is metonymy because Martin Luther King Jr. was famous for using nonviolent resistence to defeat injustice and things that were wrong.

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