The rhetorical technique most used in this excerpt is
parallelism
overstatement
ethos.
shift.
Read the excerpt from "A Latina Judge's Voice" by Hon.
Sonia Sotomayor
Let us not forget that between the appointments of Justice
Sandra Day O'Connor in 1981 and Justice Ginsburg in 1992,
eleven years passed. Similarly, between Justice Kaye's
initial appointment as an Associate Judge to the New York
Court of Appeals in 1983, and Justice Ciparick's appointment
in 1993, ten years elapsed. Almost nine years later, we are
waiting for a third appointment of a woman to both the
Supreme Court and the New York Court of Appeals and of a
second minority, male or female, preferably Hispanic, to the
Supreme Court. In 1992 when I joined the bench, there were
still two out of 13 circuit courts and about 53 out of 92 district
courts in which no women sat. At the beginning of
September of 2001, there are women sitting in all 3 circuit
courts. The First, Fifth, Eighth and Federal Circuits each
have only one female judge, however, out of a combined
total number of 48 judges. There are still nearly 37 district