Question

1.1.8 quiz: analyze rhetoric
read this sentence from common sense.
in the following pages i offer nothing more than simple facts, plain arguments, and common sense.
thomas paine most clearly begins his argument with what rhetorical strategy?
a. a metaphor
b. emotional language
c. a rhetorical question
d. parallelism

Explanation:

The sentence "In the following pages I offer nothing more than simple facts, plain arguments, and common sense" uses parallel structure with the phrases "simple facts", "plain arguments", and "common sense". There is no metaphor, no emotional - laden words, and no rhetorical question.

Answer:

D. Parallelism