Question

Now, what are they? Men at all? Or small moveable forts and magazines, at the service of some unscrupulous man in power?

Answer 1

The rhetorical device that Thoreau uses here is A) Metaphor

Metaphor describes a subject or objects as a different one or makes a comparison between them as if the were quite similar.

Rhyme is the use of repetition in one or two words more commonly at the end of each line

Meter creates a sound pattern in writing through the use of stressed and unstressed words being this organized to go one and one.

Parallellism uses repetitive structures in sentences.

Answer 2

Its A. metaphor on apex