Question

Which of these rhetorical devices does thoreau most clearly use here?

Answer 1

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Read the following excerpt from Henry David Thoreau's "Resistance to Civil Government"

It is truly enough said that a corporation has no conscience, but a corporation of conscientious men is a corporation with a conscience.

Which of these rhetorical devices does Thoreau use here?

Answer:

Parallelism

Explanation:

We can say that Thoreau used the parallelism in the paragraph shown above. That's because he wrote phrases that, in sequence, have equivalent meanings and a grammatical pattern that makes them similar within reading. This allows an idea to be highlighted and intensified during the reading of the text.