Read the excerpt from "Among Free Men."
Whenever any American's life is taken by another
American unnecessarily-whether it is done in the
name of the law or in defiance of the law, by one man
or a gang, in cold blood or in passion, in an attack of
violence or in response to violence-whenever we tear
at the fabric of life which another man has painfully
and clumsily woven for himself and his children, the
whole nation is degraded.
Which rhetorical device is used in this excerpt?
alliteration, in the repetition of the word "violence"
irony, in the list of juxtaposed conditions
allusion, in reference to the country
metaphor, in the image "fabric of life"