Read this excerpt from Henry David Thoreau's "Civil Disobedience":
It is excellent, we must all allow; yet this government never of
itself furthered any enterprise, but by the alacrity with which it got
out of its way. It does not keep the country free. It does not settle
the West. It does not educate.
Which statement about Thoreau's style is most accurate?
A. He uses parallel structure to list the types of things individuals, not
governments, do
B. He uses parallelism to list the failures of the British government.
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C. He uses a metaphor by referring to the government as "it."
He uses rhetorical questions to lead the audience to consider his point of
view.