In the world, People really do not want to harm others. If farmers realized that deadly pesticides, such as parathion, could hurt people just as easily as the birds and other pests they are trying to put an end to , would they still use them? In this excerpt from Silent Spring, Rachel Carson uses rhetorical devices such as hyperbole, understatement, and rhetorical questions to make the practice of using poisons such as parathion important . Carson starts out by using the symbiotic nature of hyperbole and understatement to reveal the whole practice as overkill. She solidifies her argument by using rhetorical questions to make her readers see the ethical flaws and potential human casualties caused by deadly pesticides.
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