Asked by jo

Read the quotation from "The Danger of a Single Story” by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.

Stories can break the dignity of a people, but stories can also repair that broken dignity.

Which rhetorical device is used in the quotation?

antithesis
irony
synecdoche
zeugma

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Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
Antithesis.

The sentence sets two opposite ideas in parallel—“break the dignity” vs. “repair that broken dignity”—creating a clear contrast, which is the hallmark of antithesis.