What rhetorical devices does the writer use in the phrase “forcing them into failure and breaking their spirit”? As Darwin suggested, intelligence deals with our ability to learn from experience and to adapt our behavior accordingly. Those of us with “good” genes—parents and grandparents with high IQs—arrive on the planet with an advantage. Whether or not we make the most of that advantage is, of course, up to us. However, if we choose to ignore the heritability aspect of intelligence, we will simply continue carelessly to pour money into over-educating people who may never accomplish the goals we seek, forcing them into failure and breaking their spirit.

A. alliteration, parallelism, and idiom

B. alliteration, idiom, and rhetorical question

C. verbal irony, simile, and parallelism

D. antithesis, simile, and rhetorical question