Question

Read the excerpt from Prime Minister Winston Churchill's "Their Finest Hour" speech, delivered to the United Kingdom’s House of Commons in 1940. During the first four years of the last war the Allies experienced nothing but disaster and disappointment. That was our constant fear: one blow after another, terrible losses, frightful dangers. Everything miscarried. And yet at the end of those four years the morale of the Allies was higher than that of the Germans, who had moved from one aggressive triumph to another, and who stood everywhere triumphant invaders of the lands into which they had broken. The rhetorical technique used in this excerpt is shift. understatement. logos. parallelism.

Answer 1

The rhetorical technique used in this excerpt is shift.

Rhetorical techniques are used by speakers or writers to emphasis specific points they wish to convey the audience.

Shift: Shift are statements where there is sudden change from one point or time. In this excerpt, Churchill talks about the four years of war, its effects and then jumps to Germany's war methods.

Understatement: These are statements which deliver a lesser effect than the actual meaning.

Logos: These are statements of logic from which further conclusion is drawn.

Parallelism: These are statements containing repeated words or sentences.

Answer 2

Answer: Shift

Explanation:

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