Read the excerpt from "Choice: A Tribute to Dr. Martin
Luther King, Jr." by Alice Walker.
We loved the land and worked the land, but we never
owned it, and even if we bought land, as my great-
grandfather did after the Civil War, it was always in
danger of being taken away, as his was, during the
period following Reconstruction.
Which rhetorical device does the author use in this
excerpt?
O antithesis
O metonymy
Osynecdoche
Ozeugma
