<em>The excerpt was about the discovery of America and the fist person ever to be born on the American soil who happens to be Virginia.</em> Virginia's mother, Elenora was pregnant with child when she embarked on the journey of discovering new land (location) inhabited by people of different custom and tradition.
<em>Unfortunately, one of the colonist was killed by the Native Americans leading to John White to return back to England to seek for help thereby leaving behind the daughter and her grand daughter. </em>
The correct answer for the given question above would be the first option. Based on the given excerpt above from "The Gettysburg Address", the rhetorical device that is created by the italicized portions of the passage is PARALLEL STRUCTURE. Hope this is the answer that you are looking for.
