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FalconmasterDragonslayer:

Read this excerpt from "Hope, Despair and Memory" and answer the question. And yet it is surely human to forget, even to want to forget. The Ancients saw it as a divine gift. Indeed if memory helps us to survive, forgetting allows us to go on living. How could we go on with our daily lives, if we remained constantly aware of the dangers and ghosts surrounding us? The Talmud tells us that without the ability to forget, man would soon cease to learn. Without the ability to forget, man would live in a permanent, paralyzing fear of death. Only God and God alone can and must remember everything. In the above excerpt Wiesel is using what rhetorical devices? alliteration and ethos paradox and antithesis parable and pathos persuasion and rhetoric

Elsa213:

What do you believe the correct answer is?

FalconmasterDragonslayer:

c or a

Elsa213:

Like I stated in your previous question, alliteration is continuously beginning with the same letter. `Taco's tear towers`

FalconmasterDragonslayer:

Then it is c

Elsa213:

`Parable` is a fable. The excerpt is an explanation of `forgetting`.

FalconmasterDragonslayer:

So not c?

Elsa213:

This excerpt isn't `persuading` either. Finally, you are left with B. :p `paradox and antithesis` A paradox is an explanation.

Elsa213:

`a seemingly absurd or self-contradictory statement or proposition that when investigated or explained may prove to be well founded or true.`

FalconmasterDragonslayer:

Okay

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