<span> 1)The rainbow signifies a new beginning for Earth after a dark storm.</span>
The primary rhetorical device in the sentence is parallelism, since a grammatical structure is repeated for emphasis and persuasion, as explained below.
<h3 /><h3>What is a rhetorical device?</h3>
A rhetorical device is any technique used with persuasion and emphasis as its purpose. That is, anything a writer or a speaker does or says in order to persuade their audience of something is a rhetorical device.
In the excerpt "I’ve seen things on the range. I’ve battled my share of snakes. I’ve dealt with snakes that were animals and snakes that were people," the primary rhetorical device is parallelism. Parallelism is the repetition of a grammatical structure inside a sentence. The structure being repeated here is:
- noun + that + were + noun
With the information above in mind, we can select option D as the correct answer for this question.
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Answer:
Thoreau gave much thought to his form of rebellion.
Explanation:
This is the sentence that best expresses the main idea of the paragraph. The sentence tells us that Thoreau had thought about his ideas carefully, and that he had a well-constructed, logical justification for civil disobedience. Thoreau clearly had spent a lot of time thinking about this form of rebellion. He was not only convinced of his position but he summarized his views in his essay.
<span>B. We were walking by the lake when we heard a siren.
C. By the time I graduated, I had attended three different high schools.
D. Though he had been rude at first, Rupert eventually won over the congregation
These three sentences are all correct, because even if the verb tense shifts it still makes sense within the context of the situation.</span>
