Question

read the excerpt from dwight d. eisenhowers military - industrial complex speech and answer the question that follows.progress toward these noble goals is persistently threatened by the conflict now engulfing the world. it commands our whole attention, absorbs our very beings. we face a hostile ideology—global in scope, atheistic in character, ruthless in purpose, and insidious in method.which statement correctly identifies the rhetorical device in the bolded sentence and explains its effect on the text?asyndeton, because the lack of conjunctions between phrases makes them seem more powerfulirony, because eisenhower says the opposite of what he means to create a sense of humor in the textmetonymy, because uses eisenhower uses the word \world\ to replace earthzeugma, because the word \absorbs\ applies to two others in different senses

Explanation:

Asyndeton is a rhetorical device where conjunctions are omitted. In the bolded sentence, "It commands our whole attention, absorbs our very beings", there are no conjunctions like "and" between the phrases. This omission makes the phrases seem more forceful and impactful. Irony is when one says the opposite of what is meant, but there's no such element here. Metonymy is substitution of one word for another related word, but "world" isn't a substitution in a metonymic sense here. Zeugma is when a word applies to multiple others in different senses, but that's not the case here.

Answer:

Asyndeton, because the lack of conjunctions between phrases makes them seem more powerful.