Read this 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 best describes thoreau's rhetorical style? a. thoreau uses metaphor to prompt the reader to question the government's actions. b. thoreau uses parallelism to compare the government to something soulless. c. thoreau uses parallelism to show how a cure can be worse than the disease. d. thoreau uses metaphor to convey the idea that the government lacks integrity.