Use the passage from a speech by Representative Barbara Jordan to anawer the question. Which rhetorical techniques are demonstrated in this passage? Select the two correct answers.
To those who say we are rushing this issue of civil rights, I say to them we are 172 years late. To those who say this civil-rights program is an infringement on state rights, I say this: The time has arrived in America for the Democratic Party to get out of the shadow of states' rights and walk forthrightly into the bright sunshine of human rights.
- rhetorical question
- parallelism
- metaphor
- allusion
- irony