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1.
rhetorical question
1) P4 How much harder will it be to eliminate the
prejudice against women?
2) P10 Why are women thought of as secretaries, not administrators?
Librarians and teachers, but not doctors and lawyers?
3) P12 If that is not prejudice, what would you call it?
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2.
metaphor
1) P4 Part of the problem is that women in America
are much more brainwashed and content with their roles
as second-class citizens than blacks ever were.
2) P5 I have done the work -- … while man reaped the rewards,
which is almost invariably the lot of women in politics.
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3.
antithesis
1) P10 Why are women thought of as secretaries,
not administrators? Librarians and teachers, but not doctors
and lawyers?
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4.
parallelism
1) P15 When there are no children …, I may be ready to
…. When there is a …, I may be ready. When we do not …,
when we no longer …, and when the laws ….
2) P17 It is women who can bring empathy, tolerance, insight,
patience, and persistence to government …
3) P17 The women of a nation mold its moral, its religions,
and its politics by the lives they live.
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5.
transferred epithet
1) P3 “Who, us?” they
asked in injured tones.
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