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Identifying Rhetorical Strategies

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(1) Plastic straws make up only a fraction of marine debris, yet they’ve become a symbol in the fight against ocean pollution. (2) Why straws? (3) Perhaps because they’re everywhere—tiny and disposable, yet persistent. (4) The movement needed a villain, and the straw was willing.

Which of the following rhetorical strategies is used in sentence 4?

ARhetorical question
BParallelism
CPersonification
DIrony
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