"Discomfort can open up new understanding and meaning."
•Device: Imagery
"And be careful not to define injustice in foreign terms."
•Device: Metaphor
Line: "A room full of men can arbitrarily make decisions about women’s bodies."
Line: "More women die in childbirth in America than should for a country that is ostensibly the most powerful in the world."
•Device: Irony
"You are better off if your fellow citizens are better off."
"I am always half amused and half annoyed..."
Line: "Gender is as much a problem in the United States as it is in Nigeria; it just happens to wear a different kind of dress here."
•Device: Personification
Juxtaposition
"Your productivity and your well-being increase if you live in a system of justice."
•Device: Antithesis
•Device: Parallelism
•Device: Cause and Effect
Line: "Living in a just society is a huge gain."
•Device: Simile