The failing company was not going to succeed because it was bankrupt and did not have any money left. what is the best way to revise this sentence to eliminate wordiness?

The local school board would like to change the school calendar so that students are in school year round. do you think this is a good idea or a bad idea? to you see which side you want to defend answer this question from both angles.

Read the excerpt from "home front diary." jimmy simmons stopped by today to tell me that he had enlisted in the army. he asked me if i would write to him, and i said i would. i told him that i've been writing to my uncle arthur and susan's cousin john for about a year, and as an experienced correspondent i had some advice about all the censorship. "don't write down any information about your location or the number of soldiers in your unit because the censors will cut all of that away," i said. "in my experience, loose lips not only sink ships, they make letters look like snowflake decorations! ” well, he belly laughed over that one. how is the author's perspective different from jimmy's? the author has been to war and she can give jimmy advice. jimmy has become a soldier and does not believe the author’s advice. the author has experience writing to soldiers but jimmy does not. jimmy has more experience at letter writing than the author.

Which of these rhetorical devices is most clearly used in the underlined portion of the text?