Rhetorical Devices Help

Question

HI I need help finding Rhetorical devices in this passage

Passage:

 Look around you.This is where the path of hatred has brought us.This is the path I choose, Father. What will yours be?My daughter speaks with the wisdom beyond her years. We've all come here with anger in our hearts, but she comes with courage and understanding. From this day forward, if there is to be more killing, it will not start with me.

Answer 1

Rhetorical devices work to persuade the reader by evoking an emotional response with language. Personification, or giving human attributes to inanimate objects, is one: "the path of hatred." Hyperbole, exaggerating an emotion to the degree it becomes ridiculous is a rhetorical device. Repeating words or parallel construction is another method. "I came, I saw, I conquered." Alliteration, beginning a series of words with the same letter or sound, is also effective. Several online sources provide the names and examples for dozens of rhetorical devices, though that can be overwhelming. I hope this gives you a general idea for your assignment.

 

 

 

 

 

Answer 2

 

Look around you.This is where the path of hatred has brought us. What will yours be, Father ? My daughter speaks with the wisdom beyond her years. We've all come here with anger in our hearts, but she comes with courage and understanding. From this day forward, if there is to be more killing, it will not start with me.