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Answer: entangled
Explanation:
Mired has several meanings but in this case it refers to being entangled.
The scenario above tells of a situation where an Act to provide for better healthcare to Veterans, the VA Mission Act, had not been passed due to budgetary issues.
In using the word ''mired'', the author wanted to describe that the Act had not been passed because it had been entangled in budgetary disputes between different parties.
The rhetorical device which best describes the example shown is; Choice C; Allusion.
<h3>Antithesis and Allusion as Rhetorical devices</h3>
Antithesis is used in literature in writing or speech either as a proposition that contrasts with or reverses some previously mentioned proposition, or when two opposites are introduced together for contrasting effect.
An allusion put simply, is when one hints at something and expect the other person to understand what we are referencing.
Hence, it follows particularly from the line; "You know Donna Weems as the Shakespeare of our school" that the rhetorical device is; Allusion.
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