Read this section from “Statement on the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.” and answer the follow-up questions.

What we need in the United States is not division; what we need in the United States is not hatred; what we need in the United States is not violence and lawlessness, but is love, and wisdom, and compassion toward one another, and a feeling of justice toward those who still suffer within our country, whether they be white or whether they be black. So I ask you tonight to return home, to say a prayer for the family of Martin Luther King—yeah, it's true—but more importantly to say a prayer for our own country, which all of us love—a prayer for understanding and that compassion of which I spoke.

Which of the following is a rhetorical device Kennedy uses in this passage?


a)

Repetition of language meant to bring up feelings of unity in the audience


b)

Language designed to stir up angry emotions in the audience


c)

Language designed to make the audience focus on the suffering of the black community


d)

An appeal to his authority based on his brother having been president