The annual New York City Marathon is the worlds largest marathon.
The rhetorical device being used in the
sentence above is parallelism.
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Parallelism uses words and phrases identical in
structure. As in the sentence, “<span>They have chained, bound, and gagged our freedom”,
uses the same form of the verb which is in past tense.</span></span>
I would say “Mocking” due to the use of rhetorical questions and almost sarcastic remarks