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A figure of speech or rhetorical figure is a word or phrase that entails an intentional deviation from ordinary language use in order to produce a rhetorical effect. A word or phrase used in a non-literal sense for rhetorical or vivid effect.
Faced with exclusion, marginalized employees often become disengaged with their work and even more isolated. They report feelings of anger, fear, depression, anxiety, sadness, and stress, all centered around something that's out of their control: someone else's blatant prejudice.
It’s both slow and fast. Initially it is quite slow “staggered” and the sentences are longer and more complex.
Towards the end it’s more fast paced and this is when by both the shorter sentences “it fell bodily.” and also by the words “in the next,”