Read the following passage from "What to a Slave Is the Fourth of July?":
To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciations of tyrants, brass fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade, and solemnity, are, to him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy . . .
Which rhetorical device is demonstrated in this passage?
A.
Parallelism
B.
Polyptoton
C.
Polysyndeton
D.
Anthropomorphism
1 answer
A. Parallelism