Read the following passage from Douglass's speech:
They were peace men; but they preferred revolution to
peaceful submission to bondage.
Which rhetorical technique does Douglass use in this sentence?
A. Antithesis
B. Epistrophe
C. Anaphora
O D. Simile
Stating that they were "peace men" but preferring a revolution with violence as a necessary means to win and rejecting "peaceful submission" is the definition of an antithesis.
