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Read the excerpt from Pericles’s funeral oration by Thucydides.

We do not say that a man who takes no interest in politics is a man who minds his own business; we say that he has no business here at all.

Which rhetorical device does the speaker use?

antithesis
hyperbole
irony
meiosis

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Answer:

A

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Answer: A - antithesis

Explanation: just took the quiz :)

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