Which rhetorical device is used in the following sentence?

let history be the final judge of our deeds.

D

Explanation: It gives a human trait to and object or idea.

D. Personification

Explanation:

A rhetorical device refers to the use of words in certain way in order to convey meaning or persuade the reader or audience, to evoke their emotions.

Personification refers to a type of rhetorical device or a figure of speech that gives human attributes to a thing or non-human object such as an animal, an idea or event. Personification portrays that thing in way that make people to think they can do what human do.

For example, "Let history be the final judge of our deeds" in the question is a personification. This is because is "history" is an event and not a human being, but it is given an attribute, a role or a title of human being, i.e. judge, a human.

Therefore, the rhetorical device used in "Let history be the final judge of our deeds" is personification.

compare & contrast informative essay/speech

when speaking or writing for the sole purpose of providing information in order to give audience members a good basis for making a decision, you would present an informative speech or essay.   because you wouldn’t want to be persuading the audience by arguing for one type of exercise over the other, you wouldn’t choose a persuasive/argumentative technique.   to fairly, and without bias, present information about the pros and cons of each type exercise, a compare/contrast, informative speech/essay would be the best bet.