The correct answer is pun.
Here, a play on the word "mean" is used. Mean is both a method ("no sudden method of death") and a way to describe something embarrassing or painful.
Change f or fe to v and add s
If you're referring to "and dirty", then it is an absolute phrase because it's a modifier that refers to a noun.
The correct answer for this question is "C. Logos." The<span> rhetorical device that Thoreau most clearly use here is Logos.
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Based on the lines,
"Men generally, under such a government as this, think that they ought to wait until they have persuaded the majority to alter them [unjust laws]. Theythink that, if they should resist, the remedy would be worse than the evil."
