"Barbara Jordan Remarks on Impeachment, July, 1974"

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by Barbara Jordan

If the impeachment provision in the Constitution of the United States will not reach the offenses charged here, then perhaps that 18th-century Constitution should be abandoned to a 20th-century paper shredder!

Rep. Barbara Jordan's remarks on impeachment during Watergate

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Use the passage from a speech by Representative Barbara Jordan to answer the question.

Which rhetorical techniques are demonstrated in this passage? Select the two correct answers.

(1 point)
Responses

hyperbole
hyperbole

metaphor
metaphor

rhetorical conditional
rhetorical conditional

anaphora
anaphora

juxtaposition

Answer 1

hyperbole
rhetorical conditional