Knowledge always desires increase: it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but which will afterwards propagate itself." --samuel johnson
which rhetorical device is used in the sentence?
a) allusion
b) analogy
c) oxymoron
d) parallelism

answer: j

explanation:

the correct answer is d. a discussion of specific uses of alliteration

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when you are critiquing or evaluating a poem, you will mostly pay attention to the theme, as well as figures of speech and rhythm. alliteration is a figure of speech where consonants are repeated in neighboring words - and it is important for analysis of sound and rhythm, which is why it might appear in the evaluation of that poem.