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Read this sentence from Common Sense: Jealousies will be always arising; insurrections will be constantly happening. What rhetorical strategy is Thomas Paine most clearly using in this line?

A. Parallelism
B. Simile
C. Logos
D. Ethos

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Answer:

the answer would be A. parallelism

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Let's take a look at the phrase:
Jealousies will be always arising;
insurrections will be constantly happening

both parts have the structure of

noun-plurar WILL BE adverb verb-ING.

So we see that both parts have a similar structure; we call it a parallel structure - the strategy is parallelism, the use of parallel structures to highlight a similarity between two things
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