Rhetorical devices

Antithesis

Towards the end of the excerpt from “The Victims of Sprawl”, authors Andrés Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, and Jeff Speck insert an example of antithesis: “Those who can leave the deteriorating city behind are quick to do so; those who can't are stuck, without the support or inspiration of success around them, doomed to the generational cycle of poverty” (p. 92, ll. 22-25). In this example, the authors contrast the wealthy and the poor and highlight the injustice of urban sprawl and poor city planning that makes poor people continue to live in poverty. 

Antithesis is also introduced when the authors contrast a popular belief with reality:

Better suburban schools - a phenomenon peculiar to the US - are good for children. Big, safe, grassy fields to play on are also good for them. What is not so good ...