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"Benjamin Franklin and the Invention of America" (excerpt) Benjamin Franklin is the founding father who winks at us. __ We see his reflection in our own time. He was, during his eighty.four-year-long life, America's best scientist, inventor, diplomat,writer, and business strategist,and he was also one of its most practical, though not most profound, political thinkers. __ And in politics, he proposed seminal plan for uniting the colonies and creating a federal model for a national government. But the most interesting thing that Franklin invented, and continually reinvented, was himself.America's first great publicist.he was, in his life and in his writings, consciously trying to create a new American archetype. In the process, he carefully crafted his own persona, portrayed it in public, and polished it for posterity. Franklin has a particular resonance in twenty-first-century America. __ We can easily imagine having a beer with him after work, showing him how to use the latest digital device, sharing the business plan for a new venture, and discussing the most recent political scandals or policy ideas. He would laugh at the latest joke about a priest and a rabbi, or about a farmer's daughter. We would admire both his earnestness and his self -aware irony. And we would relate to the way he tried to balance, sofvetimes uneasily, the pursuit of reputation, wealth, earthly virtues and spiritual values. His morality was built on a sincere belief in leading a virtuous life.serving the country he loved, and hoping to achieve salvation through good works. That led him to make the link between private virtue and civic virtue and to suspect, based on the meager evidence he could muster about God's will, that these earthly virtues were linked to heavenly ones as well.As he put it in the motto for the library he founded, "To pour forth benefits for the common good is divine.In comparison to contemporaries such as Jonathan Edwards, who believed that men were sinners in the hands of an angry God and that salvation could come through grace alone, this outlook might seem somewhat complacent. In some ways it was but it was also genuine. Whatever view one takes it is useful to engage anew with Franklin,for in doing so we are grappling with a fundamental issue: How does one live a life that is useful.virtuous, worthy, moral, and spiritually meaningful? For that matter, which of these attributes is the most important? These are questions just as vital for a self-satisfied age as they were for a revolutionary one." Walter Isaacson (2003) What pratorical device does Isaacson use in the last paragraph of this article? parallelism restatement exclamation rhetorical question

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"Benjamin Franklin and the Invention of America" (excerpt)
Benjamin Franklin is the founding father who winks at us. __ We see his reflection in our own time.
He was, during his eighty.four-year-long life, America's best scientist, inventor, diplomat,writer, and business strategist,and he
was also one of its most practical, though not most profound, political thinkers. __ And in politics, he proposed seminal plan for
uniting the colonies and creating a federal model for a national government.
But the most interesting thing that Franklin invented, and continually reinvented, was himself.America's first great publicist.he
was, in his life and in his writings, consciously trying to create a new American archetype. In the process, he carefully crafted his
own persona, portrayed it in public, and polished it for posterity.
Franklin has a particular resonance in twenty-first-century America. __ We can easily imagine having a beer with him after work,
showing him how to use the latest digital device, sharing the business plan for a new venture, and discussing the most recent
political scandals or policy ideas. He would laugh at the latest joke about a priest and a rabbi, or about a farmer's daughter. We
would admire both his earnestness and his self -aware irony. And we would relate to the way he tried to balance, sofvetimes
uneasily, the pursuit of reputation, wealth, earthly virtues and spiritual values.
His morality was built on a sincere belief in leading a virtuous life.serving the country he loved, and hoping to achieve salvation
through good works. That led him to make the link between private virtue and civic virtue and to suspect, based on the meager
evidence he could muster about God's will, that these earthly virtues were linked to heavenly ones as well.As he put it in the
motto for the library he founded, "To pour forth benefits for the common good is divine.In comparison to contemporaries such as
Jonathan Edwards, who believed that men were sinners in the hands of an angry God and that salvation could come through grace
alone, this outlook might seem somewhat complacent. In some ways it was but it was also genuine.
Whatever view one takes it is useful to engage anew with Franklin,for in doing so we are grappling with a fundamental issue: How
does one live a life that is useful.virtuous, worthy, moral, and spiritually meaningful? For that matter, which of these attributes is
the most important? These are questions just as vital for a self-satisfied age as they were for a revolutionary one."
Walter Isaacson (2003)
What pratorical device does Isaacson use in the last paragraph of this article?
parallelism
restatement
exclamation
rhetorical question

"Benjamin Franklin and the Invention of America" (excerpt) Benjamin Franklin is the founding father who winks at us. __ We see his reflection in our own time. He was, during his eighty.four-year-long life, America's best scientist, inventor, diplomat,writer, and business strategist,and he was also one of its most practical, though not most profound, political thinkers. __ And in politics, he proposed seminal plan for uniting the colonies and creating a federal model for a national government. But the most interesting thing that Franklin invented, and continually reinvented, was himself.America's first great publicist.he was, in his life and in his writings, consciously trying to create a new American archetype. In the process, he carefully crafted his own persona, portrayed it in public, and polished it for posterity. Franklin has a particular resonance in twenty-first-century America. __ We can easily imagine having a beer with him after work, showing him how to use the latest digital device, sharing the business plan for a new venture, and discussing the most recent political scandals or policy ideas. He would laugh at the latest joke about a priest and a rabbi, or about a farmer's daughter. We would admire both his earnestness and his self -aware irony. And we would relate to the way he tried to balance, sofvetimes uneasily, the pursuit of reputation, wealth, earthly virtues and spiritual values. His morality was built on a sincere belief in leading a virtuous life.serving the country he loved, and hoping to achieve salvation through good works. That led him to make the link between private virtue and civic virtue and to suspect, based on the meager evidence he could muster about God's will, that these earthly virtues were linked to heavenly ones as well.As he put it in the motto for the library he founded, "To pour forth benefits for the common good is divine.In comparison to contemporaries such as Jonathan Edwards, who believed that men were sinners in the hands of an angry God and that salvation could come through grace alone, this outlook might seem somewhat complacent. In some ways it was but it was also genuine. Whatever view one takes it is useful to engage anew with Franklin,for in doing so we are grappling with a fundamental issue: How does one live a life that is useful.virtuous, worthy, moral, and spiritually meaningful? For that matter, which of these attributes is the most important? These are questions just as vital for a self-satisfied age as they were for a revolutionary one." Walter Isaacson (2003) What pratorical device does Isaacson use in the last paragraph of this article? parallelism restatement exclamation rhetorical question

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The rhetorical device used in the last paragraph of the article is 'rhetorical question'.

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## Step 1<br />The first step in identifying the rhetorical device used in the last paragraph of the article is to understand what each of the options means. <br /><br />### **Parallelism** is a rhetorical device where parts of the sentence are grammatically the same, or similar in construction. It can be a word, a phrase, or an entire sentence repeated.<br /><br />### **Restatement** is a rhetorical device where the writer repeats the same idea in different words to emphasize and clarify what the idea is.<br /><br />### **Exclamation** is a rhetorical device where the writer uses a strong emotion to emphasize a point.<br /><br />### **Rhetorical question** is a rhetorical device where the writer asks a question not to get an answer, but to emphasize a point.<br /><br />## Step 2<br />Next, we analyze the last paragraph of the article. The author, Walter Isaacson, poses two questions: "How does one live a life that is useful, virtuous, worthy, moral, and spiritually meaningful?" and "For that matter, which of these attributes is the most important?". These questions are not meant to be answered, but rather to provoke thought and emphasize the importance of the topic.<br /><br />## Step 3<br />Finally, we compare the rhetorical device used in the paragraph with the definitions of the options. The author's use of questions that are not meant to be answered aligns with the definition of a rhetorical question.
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