100 POINTS

Read this excerpt from Kennedy’s inaugural address.

Now the trumpet summons us again--not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need--not as a call to battle, though embattled we are--but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle, year in and year out, "rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation"--a struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny, poverty, disease, and war itself.

The underlined detail in this excerpt from the address is an example of the rhetorical technique of __________.

A. Comparison.

B. Generalization.

C. Hyperbole.

D. Repetition.