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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.



Alice Walker, Choice: A Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., an excerpt from IN SEARCH OF OUR MOTHERS' GARDENS (Harcourt, Inc, 1983), 142-145. Reprinted by permission of The Joy Harris Literary Agency, Inc.

Which rhetorical device does the author use in this excerpt?

antithesis
metonymy
synecdoche
zeugma

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Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
Antithesis.

Walker contrasts loving and working the land with not owning it (and losing ownership even when purchased), using juxtaposed opposing ideas to emphasize the injustice.