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

Read the following passage: he roamed from chamber to chamber with hurried, unequal, and objectless step. the pallor of his countenance had assumed, if possible, a more ghastly hue— but the luminousness of his eye had utterly gone out. the once occasional huskiness of his tone was heard no more; and a tremulous quaver, as if of extreme terror, habitually characterized his utterance. there were times, indeed, when i thought his unceasingly agitated mind was laboring with some oppressive secret, to divulge which he struggled for the necessary courage. which of the above ideas might be considered foreshadowing? he is wandering all over the chamber his skin tone is really pale his voice is quivering the narrator thinks he is laboring with an oppressive secret