Identify one type of rhetorical devices used in paragraph and what sentence is it? You know I have always taken the rocky path. I never took the easy one, but as I got older, and as I knew I had the power and the strength, I took that rocky path, and I tried to smooth it out a little. I wanted to make it easier for you. I want you to have a chance at what I had. But I do not want you to have to run away to get it. And mothers and fathers, if it is too late for you, think of your children. Make it safe here so they don't have to run away, for I want for you and your children what I had.