Kolton Velez

English

4 October, 18:07

Read the excerpt from Henry David Thoreau's "Resistance to Civil Government":

All machines have their friction; and possibly this does

enough good to counterbalance the evil. At any rate, it is a

great evil to make a stir about it. But when the friction

comes to have its machine, and oppression and robbery

are organized, I say, let us not have such a machine any

longer.

Which statement about Thoreau's rhetorical style is most accurate?

A. He uses parallelism to compare the government to something soulless.

B. He uses parallelism to show how a remedy can be worse than the

evil.

C. He uses metaphor to portray the government as something driven

by greed and evil

D. He uses metaphor to prompt the reader to question his own

motivations