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What rhetorical device does this use "I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better government"

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Parallelism

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This phrase uses the rhetorical device known as Parallelism. The specific piece "at once...government" is repeated in two parallel clauses and thus qualifies as a parallelism.

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