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

Question

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.
Metaphor

B.
Parallelism

C.
Ethos

D.
Rhetorical question

Answer 1

B. Parallelism