Question

Which one of these rhetorical devices is used here?

Answer 1

A. Paralllelism. They come to the same conclusion of needing to do well on this test, but aren't repeating the same exact thing over again.

Answer 2

The answer to your question would be that the rhetorical device used in the statement is parallelism. That is, the correc option would be A.

Parallelism is a literary device in which parts of a sentence are grammatically identical or similar in terms of their construction. It can be a word, a phrase or a sentence. In this case, the only difference between both sentences is the verb: in one case it is the verb to want and in the other is "to need".