Question

which of the following lines from declaration of conscience best shows the rhetorical device of repetition?
it is high time that we all stopped being tools and victims of totalitarian techniques - techniques that, if continued here unchecked, will surely end what we have come to cherish as the american way of life.
the republican party so successfully met that challenge that it emerged from the civil war as the champion of a united nation - in addition to being a party which unrelentingly fought loose spending and loose programs.
i am not proud of the reckless abandon in which unproved charges have been hurled from this side of the aisle. i am not proud of the obviously staged, undignified countercharges which have been attempted in retaliation from the other side of the aisle.
as a woman, i wonder how the mothers, wives, sisters, and daughters feel about the way in which members of their families have been politically mangled in senate debate - and i use the word debate advisedly.

Explanation:

This line repeats the word "techniques", demonstrating the rhetorical device of repetition.

Answer:

It is high time that we all stopped being tools and victims of totalitarian techniques - techniques that, if continued here unchecked, will surely end what we have come to cherish as the American way of life.