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meriva
3 years ago
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How does thoreau use a parallelism in this passage? yet this government never of itself furthered any enterprise, but by the ala

crity with which it got out of its way. it does not keep the country free. it does not settle the west. it does not educate. the character inherent in the american people has done all that has been accomplished; and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way.?
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2 answers:
borishaifa [10]3 years ago
6 0

Answer:

  • To draw attention to what the American people do that the government doesn't .

Explanation:

Parallelism is the redundancy of a particular sentence or linguistic structure.

In this section, the parallelism is "It does not keep the country free. It does not settle the West. It does not educate." These are everything that the American individuals have done, however the government hasn't.

Parallelism underscores this rundown and attract attention regarding it. By listing the things in the negative, it further demonstrates that the administration did not do these things.

solniwko [45]3 years ago
5 0
To draw attention to what the American people do that the government doesn't
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