Question

What rhetorical devices do the quotes "Europe regards freedom like a stranger, and England hath given freedom warning to depart” and “America, receive the fugitive freedom, and prepare, in time, an asylum for humankind” use? It's not metaphor.

Answer 1

Answer:

The quotes use simile and personification as rhetorical devices.

Explanation:

The simile allows a direct comparison to be made between two elements that have no direct relationship in real life, but when compared, they manage to convey a profound message. The simile is an explicit comparison and therefore presents the words "as" and "like" to be established. In the phrases shown above, we can see the simile in the clause "Europe regards freedom like a stranger" where we can see that the concept of freedom for Europeans is unknown.

Personification occurs when an inanimate element is given human abilities or characteristics. In the sentences above, this can be seen twice, first in the clause "... England hath given freedom warning to depart" and then in "" America, receive the fugitive freedom ... "where we can see that England, an element inanimate, receives the human capacity to warn and to receive something.