"But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly cripple
d by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity." Which out of the four rhetorical devices is being used? Explain your answer by citing the words and phrases that exemplify the device:
A) Parallelism
B) Repetition
C) Analogy
D) Restatement
<em>Repetition</em> is a rhetorical device that repeats the same words and/or phrases or even full sentences in order to make a stronger impression and put an accent to what a writer considers to be the most important idea in the text. Its use is common in both prose and poetry.
Examples of repetition in the given excerpt are: <u><em>One hundred years later</em></u><em> </em>and <u><em>Negro</em></u> as both of them repeat 3 times.
