Question

question 9 of 20
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. simile
b. parallelism
c. paradox
d. understatement

Explanation:

The excerpt uses repeated grammatical structures: "goggled his mind, muzzled his speech, goggled his perception, muzzled his protest" and the earlier parallel phrasing about the "monster" infiltrating the driver. This consistent, repeated pattern of phrasing is the core of parallelism. A simile requires a direct comparison using "like" or "as" (not present here), a paradox is a contradictory statement (not seen here), and understatement is minimizing a situation (not applicable here).

Answer:

B. Parallelism