Assignment Task:
Read the excerpt from Dwight D. Eisenhower's Military-Industrial Complex speech and answer the question that follows.
Another factor in maintaining balance involves the element of time. As we peer into society's future, we-you and I, and our government-must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering, for our own ease and convenience, the precious resources of tomorrow. We cannot mortgage the material assets of our grandchildren without risking the loss also of their political and spiritual heritage. We want democracy to survive for all generations to come, not to become the insolvent phantom of tomorrow.
Identify one rhetorical device and describe its impact on the text.