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What rhetorical device does Thomas Jefferson use in this passage? He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coast, burned our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people: parallelism irony alliteration allusion
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What rhetorical device does Thomas Jefferson use in this passage?

He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coast, burned our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people:


parallelism

irony

alliteration

allusion

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This is an example of A. Parallelism.

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The correct answer is C. Alliteration
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