Question

read this sentence:

i believe in freedom, i believe in justice, and i believe in america.

which rhetorical device is the sentence most clearly using?

a. imagery
b. figurative language
c. parallelism
d. timbre

Explanation:

The sentence repeats the structure "I believe in..." for three different ideas (freedom, justice, America). Parallelism is the use of similar grammatical structures in a series, which matches this repetition of the same phrase structure. Imagery involves descriptive sensory details, figurative language uses non - literal comparisons (not seen here), and timbre is about sound quality (not relevant to this sentence structure). So the rhetorical device is parallelism.

Answer:

C. Parallelism