Question

Which device does the speaker use to keep the audience’s attention on the topic of the speech?

A.intensity about the necessity to deal with terrorism

B.comparison of the means used by Nazis and modern terror groups

C.descriptions of the different weapons used by both the Nazis and modern terror groups

D.contrast between the means used by Nazis and the modern terror groups

Answer 1

The Challenges of Modern War
by John Reid, MP, British Defense Secretary (excerpt)

In the 20th century, the Nazis used the most modern technology available to pursue their evil—the V2 bombs, Zyklon B and Lord Haw-haw on the radio. Nowadays, al-Qaeda use the latest, 21st-century technology available to them to pursue their evil—the internet and remotely-detonated roadside bombs. And, crucially, anyone who uses planes to try to kill tens of thousands of people won't hesitate to use chemical and biological weapons to kill hundreds of thousands, or millions with ease.

Without the wartime generation that made sacrifices to defeat Hitler, we wouldn't have the freedoms to fight this more modern evil. Without the courage of today's troops we wouldn't have the means to protect those freedoms. Both those groups must sometimes feel that if Lord Haw-haw was still around today, someone would be telling us that human rights demand that he be given a weekly column in our newspapers.

That's why this unconstrained terrorist enemy believes their approach puts our own forces at a disadvantage, both in the battles on the ground, and in the battle for ideas in which we are also engaged.