No, I don't think it is a rhetorical device
The answer is B...knowing about her heart condition develops her character, this in turn makes her later death believable because she has been characterized as someone with a fragile heart.
<u>Answer</u>:
The lines from “The Chimney Sweeper” (Songs of Innocence) that most accurately portray the innocent, naive perspective of the child speaker are: “And by came an angel, who had a bright key, And he opened the coffins, and set them all free; Then down a green plain, leaping, laughing, they run And wash in a river, and shine in the sun.” Option C is the correct answer over here.
<u>Explanation</u>:
William Blake’s “The Chimney Sweeper,” is an insight into a corrupt society and a criticised view of the Church. These unprivileged children lead a death-infected life of restriction but in their dreams they are on a green plain where there is pleasure, light, colour and laughter and they are free and running.
The reality is subjected to the darkness of the city life and a capitalist economy. In the lines mentioned above, this is portrayed. The dream helps Tom endure his misery but the poet isn’t ready to commend such a passive acceptance of misery to obtain the happiness of heaven after death .
