The rhetorical technique most used in this excerpt is
parallelism
overstatement
ethos.
shift.
Read the excerpt from "A Latina Judge's Voice" by Hon.
Sonia Sotomayor
Let us not forget that between the appointments of Justice
Sandra Day O'Connor in 1981 and Justice Ginsburg in 1992,
eleven years passed. Similarly, between Justice Kaye's
initial appointment as an Associate Judge to the New York
Court of Appeals in 1983, and Justice Ciparick's appointment
in 1993, ten years elapsed. Almost nine years later, we are
waiting for a third appointment of a woman to both the
Supreme Court and the New York Court of Appeals and of a
second minority, male or female, preferably Hispanic, to the
Supreme Court. In 1992 when I joined the bench, there were
still two out of 13 circuit courts and about 53 out of 92 district
courts in which no women sat. At the beginning of
September of 2001, there are women sitting in all 3 circuit
courts. The First, Fifth, Eighth and Federal Circuits each
have only one female judge, however, out of a combined
total number of 48 judges. There are still nearly 37 district

The rhetorical technique most used in this excerpt is shift.

Option D.

Explanation:

Shift is one of the most commonly used rhetorical techniques. In this kind of rhetorical technique, the author of the passage changes the tone or the tone of the writing of the passage within a piece. This kind of rhetorical device is used when there has to be shift in the focus of the theme of the passage or there is change in the language according to the change in the scene.

In this passage also the author makes use of this rhetorical device while talking about the different scenes and events.

the support that the author, uses in the article facing our fears is a): a definition of the part of the brain called the amygdala.

he takes neuroscientist joseph ledoux's words by telling that by falling to distinguish between evolutionary old systems located in the amygdala and newer systems, centered in the prefrontal cortex, doctors have conflated non conscious threat circuits in the brain with circuits that underlie the conscious experience of fear. that, the author says, "leads ledoux to the jarring conclusion that the amygdala, a decades-old centerpiece of the brain's fear circuit, does not underlie the conscious feeling of fear".

despite this, the author points out in the article that that is a controversial notion and that evidence, in animal and humans, supports the idea that core emotions can exist outside of conscious awareness.