Which line of poetry includes the best example of consonance? "Love gave the wound, which, while I breathe, will bleed"
"Gr-r-r-there you go, my heart's abhorrence!"
"But get thee back. My soul is too much charged / With blood"
"The clinching interlocking claws, a living, fierce, gyrating wheel"

The answer is "he was bad enough in all conscience, but the devil himself could not temp him to turn slave-trader. satirical is a synonym for sarcastic. so when the author says that tom walker could not be tempted by the devil he does not literally mean "the devil" but he means that he is too morally upright to become a slave-trader.

He has good intentions maybe he belives in global warming