Read this excerpt from the grapes of wrath:
a twitch at the controls could swerve the cat', but the driver's hands could not twitch because the monster that built the tractor, the monster that sent the tractor out, had somehow got into the driver's hands, into his brain and muscle, had goggled him and muzzled him— goggled his mind, muzzled his speech, goggled his perception, muzzled his protest.
which rhetorical technique does it best exemplify?
a. understatement
b. simile
c. paradox
d. parallelism

The parallelism is the use of several components in the same sentence that has the same meaning, meter, sound or construction in this part of the passage “goggled his mind, muzzled his speech, goggled his perception, muzzled his protest”, the author describes what the monster has done to the driver’s hands in several ways using the parallelism. The answer is D.

D) 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 excerpt from "The Grapes of Wrath" we can see an example of parallelism in the phrase "goggled his mind, muzzled his speech, goggled his perception, muzzled his protest."

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