Relating these to Australian slang words, if "banger" relates to a sausage, then "cocky" would be short for a cockatoo. A cockatoo is a bird that is a native to Australia. Though "cocky" may also mean someone who is overconfident in a bossy way, seeing as how banger is used as a slang word, cocky as a cockatoo is more fitting.
The rhetorical device which James Baldwin most clearly uses in this passage is B. Figurative language
<h3>What is Personification?</h3>
This refers to the figure of speech that gives human attributes to inanimate objects.
Hence, we can see that the rhetorical device being used by James Baldwin as he talked about the frozen blood thawing at the hearing of a particular sound is most likely personification because it gives the actions of the blood which is an inanimate object, human qualities.
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Answer:
B. Infinitive phrase is the answer
D, the answer is omniscient
