It began to seem that the machinery of the organization i worked for was turning over, what rhetorical device is james baldwin most clearly using in this passage

The rhetorical device that James Baldwin most clearly is using in the passage: “It began to seem that the machinery of the organization I worked for was turning over”, is called figurative language.

In the passage above, Baldwin uses a word or phrase that doesn’t have its normal every day, literal meaning.

Rhetorical Devices are techniques or language used to convey a point or convince an audience. Rhetorical devices are just as useful in writing as they are in the real life.

James Baldwin says "It began to seem that the machinery of the organization I worked for was turning over". Clearly, he doesn't mean it literally, hence the word "seem" in the sentence.

Therefore, we can conclude that he is using Figurative Language.

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it's when i'm weary of considerations, and life is too much like a pathless wood where your face burns and tickles with the cobwebs broken across it, and one eye is weeping from a twig's having lashed across it open

answer to question #1: the simile that occurs in the text given (lines 43-47) is: ''life is too much like a pathless ''

explanation: a simile is a comparison of one thing with another thing and it is used to make a vivid description. it uses like or as. in the text, we can understand that the person is feeling weary of considerations and because of this, the person compares ''life'' to ''a pathless wood''.

answer to question #2: in this text we can understand that the word frost could mean anger, annoyance and bitterness, due to the fact that the person is stating that he/she is feeling weary of considerations and compares life to a pathless wood.

explanation: the word frost means coldness and something covered by ice crystals but looking at the comparison made in this text, we can understand that the word frost could mean anger, annoyance and bitterness, due to the fact that the person is stating that he/she is feeling weary of considerations therefore he/she compares life to a pathless wood.