Match each nonfiction excerpt to the rhetorical device it uses
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i shall now therefore humbly propose my own thoughts, which i hope will not be
liable to the least objection. i have been assured by a very knowing american of my
acquaintance in london, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a
most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or
boiled, and i make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee or a ragout.
(jonathan swift, "a modest proposal)
this is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug
of gradualism. now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. now is the
time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of
racial justice. now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice
to the solid rock of brotherhood.
(martin luther king jr., "have a dream")
can we forge against these enemies a grand and global alliance, north and south,
east and west, that can assure a more fruitful life for all mankind? will you join in
that historic effort?
(president john f. kennedy, inaugural address, january 26, 1961)
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