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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?

allusion

figurative language

first-person plural mode of address

parallel structure

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Answer:

allusion

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Answer:

The correct answer is parallel structure, because there is a semantical conection between the words slave and master, that draws a semantical parallel that builds the role idea of the statement. We wouldn't have the same meaning if we replace these words to unrelated ones.

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