What are some rhetorical devices used in "The Education of Women" by Daniel Defoe?

begins the essay with emotive language, juxtaposing the "barbarous" custom
of failing to educate women with the "civilized and Christian" country we imagine
ourselves to inhabit. This type of pathos is evident throughout the essay, both in the negative
descriptions of uneducated women and men and in the idealized figure of the well-educated woman,
who is described in hyperbolic terms:

A woman well bred
and well taught, furnished with the additional accomplishments of knowledge and behaviour, is a
creature without comparison. Her society is the emblem of sublimer
enjoyments, her person is angelic, and her conversation heavenly. She is all softness and
sweetness, peace, love, wit, and delight.

Defoe
juxtaposes the natural talents and virtues of women with the lowly position they occupy in
society as the servants and subordinates of men, concluding:

I cannot think that God Almighty ever made them so delicate, so glorious creatures;
and furnished them with such charms, so agreeable...