When Reverend Jesse Jackson says,"we must relate instead of debate; we must inspire instead of retire; and we must repair instead of despair," what linguistic device is he using?
A)metaphor
B)omission
C)parallelism
D)inversion

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The repetition of similar syntactical forms ("we must [verb] instead of [verb]") creates parallelism, a common rhetorical device.

When Reverend Jesse Jackson Says,"we Must Relate Instead of Debate;