All of the following are strategies for reading a memoir except for a. researching the background of the author. b. pausing after reading each paragraph and determining the main idea. c. deciding what the author is trying to say by piecing together the details. d. looking for names of people and their association with the subject.

the rhetorical technique most used in this excerpt is parallelism. parallelism is a technique which author used in sentence as substitute of repeated synthetical similarities. it is the effect of rhetorical technique.

explanation:

a simile is first defined as a type of speech that uses one thing or phrase with comparisons to things of an unrelated kind, often in order to make a more vivacious description. so of the phrases above, only the last one (i swear she cast a shadow white as stone) would be considered a simile, as a shadow white as stone takes two unrelated things and uses them in an interesting way.

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