Question

question 6 of 10
read this excerpt from the grapes of wrath.

the driver sat in his iron seat and he was proud of the
straight lines he did not will, proud of the tractor he did not
own or love, proud of the power he could not control.

which literary device does this passage most clearly show?

a. intercalary

b. rhetoric

c. synecdoche

d. parallelism

Explanation:

The passage uses a repeated grammatical structure: "proud of the [noun phrase] he did not [verb]". This pattern of similar phrasing to emphasize ideas is the core of parallelism. Intercalary refers to a standalone chapter, rhetoric is broad persuasive language, and synecdoche is a part representing a whole, none of which match the passage's structure.

Answer:

D. Parallelism