Political satire is the rhetorical device used in the excerpt you mentioned.
Answer:
Human beings' relationship to time is one of similarity, limits and inevitability. The human life is one with four stages: birth/childhood, adolescence, adulthood and old age/death. Similarly, time has four stages over the course of one year: spring, summer, fall and winter.
Explanation:
I would say the tone of this sentence is formal.
The group of words that will describe the subject.
A predicate noun is a word which renames the noun that has been mentioned in the sentence. In this case Franklin Roosevelt is the noun that has been renamed as "President", which makes it the answer to the question.
Another example in : My brother's favourite food is pizza.
<span>The predicate nominative in the sentence is Pizza. because that is the word that is replacing the earlier mentioned noun, which was "food". </span>