“After a while, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until we are marching backwards to the glorious age of the sixteenth century when bigots lighted faggots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind.” What rhetorical device is used in “the glorious age of the sixteenth century”? ( )
A、 irony
B、 parallelism
C、 inversion
D、 contrast