Which rhetorical strategy?

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<p>Americans should not be taxed to fund the Public Broadcasting Service, and Congress should terminate funding for it. We wouldn't want the federal government to publish a national newspaper. Neither should we have a government television and a government radio network. If anything should be kept separate from government and politics, it's the news and public-affairs programming that informs Americans about goernment and its policies.</p>

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<li>Lines 3-6 ("We wouldn't ... network") make use of which rhetorical strategy?
A) Exaggeration
B) Analogy
C) Personal anecdote
D) Historical citation
E) Figurative language</li>
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<p>I can't see any connection between the specified lines and any of the answer at all, in which case I believe my knowledge about rhetorical strategies is flawed.
Please explain to me the answer and show how that rhetorical stuff is used in general.
Thanks a lot :D</p>

<p>By the way this passage is from the October 2012 test.</p>

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<p>Well, the implication is that a relatively small amount of funding for public TV means that we’ll end up with a huge government media monster.</p>

<p>It’s like saying that one candy bar will make me fat.</p>

<p>This is an exaggeration of the situation.</p>

<p>(The other ones can be ruled out fairly easily.)</p>

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<p>I just found the answer key, and it’s actually B. This makes me even more confusing.</p>

<p>Why analogy?</p>

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<p>I was sober this morning, but you wouldn’t know it now.</p>

<p>It’s analogy because they’re comparing PBS to newspapers, etc.</p>

<p>Sorry about the incorrect advice; I try never to post unless I’m absolutely POSITIVE that I know what I’m talking about.</p>

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<p>So the passage is about PBS only. But it mentions newspapers and media so much that I thought it was about media in general…
My bad. Thanks jkjeremy.</p>