Read this passage from "notes of a native son": when [my father] was dead i realized that i had hardly ever spoken to him. when he had been dead a long time i began to wish i had. what rhetorical device is james baldwin most clearly using in this passage? a. allusion b. imagery c. parallelism d. metaphor

C. Parallelism.

Explanation: parallelism is a literary device that consists in the repetition of the grammatical structure of different words or phrases in a sentence or paragraph, in order to emphasize an idea or to create an impact in the audience. In the given passage from "Notes of a Native Son" we can see an example of parallelism, because, as we can see, the speaker starts both sentences with "when" and a verb in past form, and then he uses the pronoun "I" and another verb in past.

rivalry

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the answer is c. it calls attention to the urgency of the message