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Read the following excerpt from Henry David Thoreau's "Resistance to Civil Government."


Action from principle, the perception and the performance of right, changes things and relations. . . . It not only divides States and churches, it divides families; ay, it divides the individual, separating the diabolical in him from the divine.
Which of these rhetorical devices does Thoreau most clearly use here?
A. Rhetorical question
B. Parallelism
C. Ethos
D. Metaphor

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I would say that Thoreau most clearly uses B. Parallelism. It is the use of grammatically similar structures. In this case, the parallelism is additionally underlined with the use of the same vocabulary. "It not only divides States and churches, it divides families; ay, it divides the individual" - Thoreau uses clauses with predicates in simple present tense, and the same verb - to divide. 

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