Be bold and trust your abilities.
whats the story? and what are the settings and plot?
Using simple language ensures that your audience can understand your message.
The rhetorical devices that Thoreau used in Resistance to the civil government are:
Metaphor: is used to help the reader to understand the argument he is trying to say. Government as a machine (mechanical, unnatural, dehumanized).
Anaphora: Thoreau uses repetition and parallel structures. For example, repetition of "Why" or "does not".
Allusion: Christ, Copernicus, Luther, Washington and Franklin rebels.