What is the soundest sequence for identifying a rhetorical device?

Supplementary Practice 22: Comparative Rhetorical Study of Sūrat al-Kāfirūn and al-Naṣr

• Choose a label first and reshape the text to fit it
• Treat the presence of a single particle as decisive
• Check wording and grammar, speech-act type, context, and intended effect
• Ignore contextual and grammatical distinctions