Identify any rhetorical devices you find in the following passages, and explain their purposes. In the 1980s, Central America was awash in violence. Tens of thousands of people fled El Salvador and Guatemala as authoritarian governments seeking to stamp out leftist rebels turned to widespread arrests and death squads.

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The rhetorical device I can find in the following passage is Pathos.

Pathos is the appeal of emotion to try to convince an audience. When an author uses Pathos, it tries to move the emotions of the readers with its writing. In this case, the passage includes words such as "fled" to express the excessive number of people that had to migrate to other countries. Or "stamp out" to say that they had to get rid of the rebels.

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"In the 1980s, Central America was awash in violence. Tens of thousands of people fled El Salvador and Guatemala as authoritarian governments seeking to stamp out leftist rebels turned to widespread arrests and death squads."

the correct answer is b