Question

Read the excerpt from "the gettysburg address": just as i would not be a slave, so i would not be a master. which rhetorical device is created by the italicized portions of the passage?

a.figurative language
b.parallel structure
c.allusion first-person
d. plural mode of address

Answer 1

The italicized portions of the passage create a rhetorical device known as parallel structure.

Step-by-step explanation:

The rhetorical device created by the italicized portions of the passage is parallel structure. Parallel structure is the repetition of the same pattern of words or phrases to emphasize ideas and create a sense of balance. In this case, the repetition of the structure "just as I would not be...so I would not be" highlights the parallelism between the speaker's refusal to be a slave and their refusal to be a master.