Question

read the excerpt from a speech by the class president petitioning the principal to build a new stadium. our stadium is crumbling, and the effects have been felt for generations! if we built a new stadium, our community would benefit, and millions would flock to town for the home games. profits would soar, as local businesses would be flooded with new clients on game nights. and your legacy as the best principal ever would be established for all to see. which rhetorical technique is the speaker using? \bigcirc appeal \bigcirc overstatement \bigcirc parallelism \bigcirc shift

Explanation:

An overstatement (hyperbole) is an exaggeration for rhetorical effect. The speaker claims "millions would flock to town" and "profits would soar" in an exaggerated way to emphasize the benefits of a new stadium, which is not a realistic claim (e.g., a school stadium likely won't attract millions). Appeal is a broader persuasive approach, parallelism involves similar sentence structures, and shift involves a change in focus/topic, which don't fit here.

Answer:

B. overstatement