Question

During the first four years of the last war the Allies experienced nothing but disaster and disappointment. That was our constant fear: one blow after another, terrible losses, frightful dangers. Everything miscarried. And yet at the end of those four years the morale of the Allies was higher than that of the Germans, who had moved from one aggressive triumph to another, and who stood everywhere triumphant invaders of the lands into which they had broken.

The rhetorical technique used in this excerpt is

shift.
understatement.
logos.
parallelism.

Answer 1

Answer:

D. Parallelism.

Explanation:

In this excerpt, the author uses parallelism to emphasize the contrast between the Allies' experience of "nothing but disaster and disappointment" and the Germans' "aggressive triumphs". By using a repetition of words and phrases, the author emphasizes the stark contrast between the two sides.