Question

read this excerpt from the grapes of wrath.

a twitch at the controls could swerve the cat, but the drivers hands could not twitch because the monster that built the tractor, the monster that sent the tractor out, had somehow got into the drivers hands, into his brain and muscle, had goggled him and muzzled him— goggled his mind, muzzled his speech, goggled his perception, muzzled his protest.

which rhetorical technique does it best exemplify?

a. parallelism
b. paradox
c. understatement
d. simile

Explanation:

The excerpt uses repeated structures like "goggled his... muzzled his..." (e.g., "goggled his mind, muzzled his speech, goggled his perception, muzzled his protest") with similar grammatical patterns, which is parallelism. Paradox involves a contradictory statement, understatement downplays, and simile uses "like" or "as" (none here), so Parallelism fits.

Answer:

A. Parallelism