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Read this excerpt from Tim O'Brien's "Ambush"

I did not hate the young man; I did not see him as the enemy; I did not ponder issues of morality or politics or military duty

Which literary device is most clearly shown in this excerpt?

A. Figurative language

B. Parallelism

C. Hyperbole

D. Imagery

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the answer is parallelism

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The correct answer is B. Parallelism.

Indeed, parallelism, which is a repetition of grammatically similar sentences which have equivalent meanings, in order to persuade or to emphasize a point. In this excerpt the narrator uses the two first sentences to state his lack of animosity to the “young man” in question. The third explains why he hold no such animosity against him. It has thus a tertiary structure.

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