In order to make his story humorous, washington irving uses when describing traits like rip van winkle's laziness and dame van winkle's tendency to nag her husband.

consonance and assonance

onomatopoeia and allusions

exaggeration and embellishment

imagery and symbolism

C.

Explanation:

Exaggeration is a literary device that is used to state something in an over-emphasizing manner to explain it as either a better or worse. Or in simple words, we can conclude that this literary device is used by a writer to spice up the story. An embellishment, on the other hand, is a device used to ornament something.

Washington Irving in his short story "Rip Van Winkle," has used the literary device of imagery, humour, and satire. Washington has made the story humorous by using the device's exaggeration and embellishment.

Some examples of exaggeration and embellishments are:

"Rip Van Winkle, however, was one of those happy mortals, of foolish, well-oiled dispositions, who take the world easy, eat white bread or brown, whichever can be got with least thought or trouble, and would rather starve on a penny than work for a pound."

"A termagant wife may, therefore, in some respects, be considered a tolerable blessing; and if so, Rip Van Winkle was thrice blessed."

So, the correct answer is option third.

faulty parallelism is a grammar construction where there is no balance in the parts of a sentence they have a similar meaning but the grammar structure is not equivalent.

the correct version of this faulty parallelism in the sentence is:

jefferson wrote the declaration of independence, and he was the nation's third president.

the problem with the first version is that the sentence:

"jefferson was both the writer of the declaration of independence"

presents jefferson as both a subject and an agent for the verb "write" because if he was "the writer" then the declaration of independence was written by him, besides that fact, the sentence presents a dependent clause.

while the second sentence:

he was the nation's third president.

presents a basic subject+verb+object structure

so, to give a proper balance to the structure, or better said, to give a parallel structure, we must write a basic s+v+o structure in both sentences:

jefferson wrote the declaration of independence, and he was the nation third president.