In the excerpt of "Notes of a Native Son", Baldwin opts to follow his father's saying that "Bitterness was folly", meaning that his current feelings of hatred towards the streets and people that were in them should be perceived as mere foolishness, and they should be consider as nothing permanent or sustancial.
There's no answer choices, but a simile would be comparing two different things using "like" or "as". So if one of the answer choices has one of those words it's probably your answer.
The rhetoric devices used in this paragraph are:
<h3>What are rhetorical devices?</h3>
Rhetorical devices are tools or strategies of persuasion that are used in literature.
By stating that "This American government, what is it but a tradition"...the writer appeals to the existing way of doing things. This is Ethos.
When the writer makes this sentence " It does not keep the country
free. It does not settle the West. It does not educate. The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished; " they switched to the use of Pathos.
This is because, the sentence is somewhat inflammatory, hence appeals to the emotion.
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No, i have never ridden on a hay wagon???
You need to make a clear distinction:)