During the night, the narrator of "The Red Room":
A. shoots blindly at a figure in the room.
B. speaks with a ghost.
c. gets knocked out.
D. falls down the stairs.

A) It is designed to introduce an idea.

Explanation: When writing, an author can use several rhetorical devices in order to persuade, inform or impact the audience in the desired way. One rhetorical device commonly used is a rhetorical question, which is a question asked in order to create a dramatic effect or to make a point rather than to get an answer, In the given excerpt from "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?" the rhetorical question is designed to introduce an idea.