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What type of rhetorical device is used in the following sentence? "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness…” A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens

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Parallelism or parallel structure, because Dickens is repeating the same structure over and over
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