What best expresses the rhetoric that Mcarthy uses is his use of the metaphor about "spark" rekindling and making morals seem like a flame that can burn corruption.
We can arrive at this answer because:
- The text presented above is part of McCarthy's speech against communism.
- In this speech, he makes a strong appeal to pathos, encouraging the sentimentality of the public to make them believe that communism causes as much suffering, corruption, and despair to innocent people as war.
- However, Mcarthy reinforces the appeal to sentimentalism by showing that Americans would not let these problems happen, as a spark rekindled in them the will to fight communism and its problems.
McCarthy presents this rhetorical appeal with the use of a metaphor, which shows that the determination of the American people is like a spark that can defeat corruption and communism.
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