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1.
metaphor:
1)
P4 By definition, this way of life is parasitic.
2) P5 Unlike the dropouts, they are not parasites.
3) P9 In stead it dawns on a familiar, workaday place,
still in need of groceries and sewage disposal.
4) P13 It dawned on us rather suddenly that the number
of passengers on the small spaceship we inhabit is doubling
about every forty years. 
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2.
analogy:
1)
P13 … reforming the world is a little like fighting a
military a military campaign in the Apennines, as soon
as you capture one mountain range, another one looms just
ahead.
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3.
rhetorical questions:
1) P 2 If they can’t do better than that, what have they
got teach out generation?.
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4.
Synecdoche:
1)
P9 Some [the American Revolution, the French Revolution]
clearly do change things for the better.
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5.
allusion:
1)
P6 Our planet, unfortunately, is running out of noble
savages and unsullied landscapes.
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6.parallelism:
1)
P11 It lacks glamour. It promises no quick results. It
depends on the exasperating and uncertain instruments
of persuasion and democratic decision making. It demands
patience, always in short supply.
2) P13 … the unprecedented problems
of an affluent society, of racial justice, of keeping
our cities from becoming uninhabitable, of coping with
war in unfamiliar guises.
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7.
hyperbole:
1)
P 13 Most disturbing of all was our discovery of the population
explosion.
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Unit 1: Four Choices for Young People