Question

question 5 of 10
read this sentence from common sense:

the more men have to lose, the less willing are they to
venture.

what rhetorical strategy is thomas paine most clearly using in this line?

a. credibility
b. ethos
c. personification
d. parallelism

Explanation:

To determine the rhetorical strategy, we analyze each option:

• Option A: Credibility refers to establishing trustworthiness, and this sentence doesn't focus on that.
• Option B: Ethos is about appealing to ethics or character, which isn't the case here.
• Option C: Personification gives human traits to non - human entities, and the sentence doesn't do that.
• Option D: Parallelism involves using similar grammatical structures. Here, "the more... the less..." creates a parallel structure, matching the definition of parallelism.

Answer:

D. Parallelism