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bulgar [2K]
2 years ago
14

"Knowledge always desires increase: it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but which will afterwar

ds propagate itself." --Samuel Johnson
Which rhetorical device is used in the sentence?
A) Allusion
B) Analogy
C) Oxymoron
D) Parallelism
English
2 answers:
defon2 years ago
7 0
I believe the answer is B, analogy

VashaNatasha [74]2 years ago
6 0

The answer is:

B) Analogy

An anology is used when you compare ine thing to another, in this case the author relates Knowledge and fire, and he then explains why he thinks they´re alike.

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