Question

why would you limit something that helps students succeed? social media sites help students do better at school. students report that they use social media to discuss educational topics and talk about school assignments. after the university of the sciences introduced a social media program to engage students, teachers reported a noticeable improvement in grades. how does the author of passage 1 use rhetorical devices? the writer uses a rhetorical question to introduce the positive effects of social media. the writer uses understatement to emphasize social medias benefits. the writer uses overstatement to reveal the positive aspects of social media. the writer used parallelism to repeat several positive aspects of social media.

Explanation:

The passage starts with a rhetorical question "Why would you limit something that helps students succeed?" to introduce the positive effects of social - media on students' academic performance. There is no understatement, overstatement, or parallelism used in the way described in the other options.

Answer:

The writer uses a rhetorical question to introduce the positive effects of social media.