Participle phrase using a present verb phrase
Some people just react in a disrespectful way. When people are disrespectful, you just have to pause, take a breath, and be nice to them. As people say “kill em with kindness”. You know you’re doing the right thing by being nice. Ignore them disrespectful people cause they’re not worth your time:-)
President Kennedy makes intensive use of parallelism and antithesis for the sake of persuasion and to make his speech more appealing to the audience. Antithesis is a rhetorical device which is used to contrast two ideas or things in a parallel sentence. Parallel structure is a literary device which consist of a repetition of some pattern of words. These stylistic devices offer the reader a more pleasant speech as well as it makes the speech easy to understand the main idea of the thought.
Example: "Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate."
Figurative language is most common in poetry, but poetry does not always explore thought in a concise way, more often it tried to convey a feeling or an impression than treats the subject in detail.
Therefore I would choose a "novel" - it can use figurative language (unlike exploratory essay), but it also deals with ideas and thought is a profound, comprehensive way (but note that some poems will also do that!)
