The question ask on which of the following is the type of expository text does this excerpt in your given in the question from a 1917 congressional address by President Woodrow wilson exemplify and the best answer among the choices is letter B. Creative non fiction
Answer:
This is an example of a simile because it compares the pill bottle to a buried mine using like. A fountain of books sprang down upon Montag as he climbed shuddering up the sheer stair-well; This is an example of a metaphor because there is not a literal fountain of books but it paints a picture for you.
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D. Parallelism
The answer is parallelism because the structure of this excerpt stays consistent throughout these three sentences, it starts off with "it does not" in each sentence which creates a structure.