In this excerpt, the author recognizes the perceived drawbacks of giving advice through the use of
"Though I employ so much of my time in writing to you, I confess I have often my doubts whether it is to any purpose. I know how unwelcome advice generally is; I know that those who want it most like it and follow it least; and I know, too, that the advice of parents, more particularly, is ascribed to the moroseness, the imperiousness, or the garrulity of old age."
A. simile
B. personification
C. metaphor
D. juxtaposition
E. anaphora