Read the excerpt from a speech by the class president petitioning the principal to build a new stadium. our stadium is crumbling, and the effects have been felt for generations! if we built a new stadium, our community would benefit, and millions would flock to town for the home games. profits would soar, as local businesses would be flooded with new clients on game nights. and your legacy as the best principal ever would be established for all to see. which rhetorical technique is the speaker using? appeal overstatement parallelism shift overstatement

the answer is b: overstatement.   overstatement is a literary technique used by writers to put emphasis on   a certain point, by describing or explaining something in a way that makes it seem more important or more serious than it really is. "crumbling", "for generations", "millions would flock", "profits woul soar" "the best principal ever" are some examples from the excerpt.

the servant does not kill the child oedipus as he was ordered to do because "he pitied the child" based on the oedipus rex story. the servant was ordered to kill the child because of the prophecy that predicted king laius' death. the king already had attempted to hurt oedipus by piercing oedipus's ankle. however, the servant did not finish the job and he rather saved the baby oedipus.

explanation:

tending to cause harm