Read the excerpt from Dr. Martin Luther King's "Letter from a Birmingham Jail." Answer the question that follows.

I cannot sit idly by in Atlanta and not be concerned about what happens in Birmingham. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

Here, King contrasts two ideas for emphasis. Which rhetorical device is he using?

Antithesis
Metonymy
Rhetorical question
Zeugma

1 answer

Antithesis
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