What is the purpose of the rhetorical device used in the underlined sentence? The parallel structure emphasizes the idea that creative work is much more challenging than other types of work.
The parallel structure emphasizes the idea that the creative process is easily and often interrupted by life’s events and obligations.
The understatement emphasizes the idea that creative work is more important than life’s everyday obligations.
The metaphor emphasizes the idea that the creative process is easily and often interrupted by life’s events and obligations.
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themes and meanings

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there are two central themes in  the miracle worker: that the human spirit can triumph over even the most daunting of disabilities and that a dedicated teacher can transform the lives of those with whom he or she comes into contact. these inspirational themes have long been personified in the widely known true-life relationship between helen keller and annie sullivan, but  the miracle worker  also dramatizes collateral issues that extend beyond the particular case. underlying helen’s process of learning basic principles of what annie terms “obedience” (decorum, etiquette, and hygiene), there are more universal lessons of self-governance—the inculcation of self-restraint instead of willfulness, the development of self-discipline instead of self-indulgence. only when these lessons have been mastered can helen begin to acquire language—which, annie says, “is to the mind more than light is to the eye.”