Read this excerpt from Henry David Thoreau's "Resistance to Civil Government":


It does not keep the country free. It does not settle the West. It does not educate.
Which of these rhetorical devices does Thoreau use here?
A. Metaphor
B. Simile
C. Rhyme
D. Parallelism

Respuesta :

D. Parallelism
The answer is parallelism because the structure of this excerpt stays consistent throughout these three sentences, it starts off with "it does not" in each sentence which creates a structure.

Read this excerpt from Henry David Thoreau's "Resistance to Civil Government":

It does not keep the country free. It does not settle the West. It does not educate.

Which of these rhetorical devices does Thoreau use here?

D. Parallelism