The rhetorical device which James Baldwin most clearly uses in this passage is B. Figurative language
<h3>What is Personification?</h3>
This refers to the figure of speech that gives human attributes to inanimate objects.
Hence, we can see that the rhetorical device being used by James Baldwin as he talked about the frozen blood thawing at the hearing of a particular sound is most likely personification because it gives the actions of the blood which is an inanimate object, human qualities.
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D, But I must get to work
The words suggest that the writer is being frustrated by circumstances and might not be able to go to work--a possibility which is creating anxiety.
The meter is iambic with 4 feet in the first 3 lines; the last line has 2 feet.
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He wanted nothing to do with her rhetoric(al) question.