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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?

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DParallelism

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DParallelism
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

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