How does the rhetorical technique used in the underlined text best develop the author’s ideas? The author’s use of overstatement exaggerates a well-known fact to emphasize men’s perceived superiority.
The author’s use of irony emphasizes that men’s desire to be superior is not an obscure or particularly interesting fact.
The author’s use of metaphor makes a creative and colorful comparison to emphasize the idea that men want to be superior.
The author’s use of allusion emphasizes that men’s desire to be superior is similar to women’s desire to be part of the women’s movement.

Read this adapted excerpt from a famous poem by john keats. this poem is about a beautiful vase with intricate shapes and patterns. you, silent form, do tease us out of thought as does etemity: cold pastorall when old age shall this generation waste, you shall remain in the middle of other woe than ours, a friend to man, to whom you say "beauty is truth, truth beauty that is all you know on earth, and all you need to know what is the poet saying when he writes that "old age shall this generation waste"? the poet is expressing his dread of growing older the poet is mourning the changes he sees in his "generation." the poet is saying that beauty is illusionary and short-lived. the poet is saying that people don't live long; life is brief