"But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity."

Which out of the four rhetorical devices is being used? Explain your answer by citing the words and phrases that exemplify the device:
A) Parallelism
B) Repetition
C) Analogy
D) Restatement

B) Repetition

Explanation:

Repetition is a rhetorical device that repeats the same words and/or phrases or even full sentences in order to make a stronger impression and put an accent to what a writer considers to be the most important idea in the text. Its use is common in both prose and poetry.

Examples of repetition in the given excerpt are: One hundred years later and Negro as both of them repeat 3 times.

a

explanation:

the correct answer is:

this is an example of the writer telling through description rather than showing through dialogue.

sometimes writers like to explain explicitely what's happening instead of adding dialogues of the situations., which is the case in this passage,