The answer would be b. an appeal to fear.
The correct answer is option letter B (a successful and hardworking businessman). By definition, a <u>stereotype</u> is a very firm idea about what a particular type of person is like. In this case, the most likely stereotype one can spot in the phrase presented above is the one of <em>a successful and hardworking businessman</em>. One usually has the idea of a businessman who is constantly working or even overworking. In fact, the narrator <u>exaggerates</u> this idea of the hardworking businessman by using a literary technique called “exaggeration”. For instance, the amount of emails that Fred Johnson will be checking (“<em>checking the four thousand emails</em>”).
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How does the author of passage 1 use rhetorical devices? The writer uses a rhetorical question to introduce the positive effects of social media. The writer uses understatement to emphasize social media’s benefits. The writer uses overstatement to reveal the positive aspects of social media.
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