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Which one of these rhetorical devices is used here?

i not only want to do well on this test, but i also need to do well on this test.
a .parallelism
b .appeal to ethos
c .personification
d .metaphor

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The answer to your question would be that the rhetorical device used in the statement is parallelism. That is, the correc option would be A.

Parallelism is a literary device in which parts of a sentence are grammatically identical or similar in terms of their construction. It can be a word, a phrase or a sentence. In this case, the only difference between both sentences is the verb: in one case it is the verb to want and in the other is "to need".

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A. Paralllelism. They come to the same conclusion of needing to do well on this test, but aren't repeating the same exact thing over again.
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