He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the head of a civilized nation. which of these rhetorical devices is most clearly used in the underlined portion of the text? a. text structure b. pathos c. ethos d. deductive logic