*PLEASE ANSWER, I DONT GET IT* As you read this passage from Henry David Thoreau's Walden, try to identify the literary devices used to make the main point of the passage. I perceive that we inhabitants of New England live this mean life that we do because our vision does not penetrate the surface of things. We think that that is which appears to be. If a man should walk through this town and see only the reality, where, think you, would the "Mill-dam" go to? If he should give us an account of the realities he beheld there, we should not recognize the place in his description. Look at a meeting-house, or a court-house, or a jail, or a shop, or a dwelling-house, and say what that thing really is before a true gaze, and they would all go to pieces in your account of them.

What device does Thoreau use in this passage?

a.) rhetorical question

b.) extended analogy

c.) figurative language

a.) rhetorical question

Explanation:

From the given passage, the device that Thoreau uses in this passage is rhetorical question.

Thoreau used rhetorical question in the passage to ask some questions for effect as they do not have answers. He compares reality with what the people PERCEIVE as their reality.

- "about the claims : -

making a claim is just a fancy way of saying that you're stating your main point.' claims are not just opinions. a claim tells what you think is true about a topic based on your knowledge .

about the country claims : -

a counterclaim is just the opposite of a claim. counterclaims are also provable and supportable by reasons and evidence. not just, 'because i said so.' when you're planning an argument, you need to know what the counterclaim might be so that you can make sure that you disprove it with your reasons and evidence your research." - (catherineroberts)

i guess you are missing the idea that has to be supported, am i right?