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What rhetorical device does the speaker use in this sentence from the speech? Before she entered the war Britain made every effort to avoid it; begged, supplicated, and entreated that there should be no conflict. climax simile antithesis metaphor

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I believe that the rhetorical device used in this sentence is climax.
Climax is a rhetorical device in which the speaker gradually uses words of stronger and stronger meanings, such as begged and supplicated here.
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