Part Now, it's time to analyze the author's diction and how it helps the author
achieve his purpose. In 75 to 125 words, write your analysis of diction in
"Midas's Zinc Touch" by completing these steps:
1. Make a statement that identifies the author's choice of diction and how
it relates to the author's purpose. (Review these sentence frames to
write your statement.)
2. Support your statement with evidence from the text.
3. Explain how the evidence supports your statement.

the rhetorical technique most used in this excerpt is parallelism. parallelism is a technique which author used in sentence as substitute of repeated synthetical similarities. it is the effect of rhetorical technique.

explanation:

not exaxtly

explanation: it depends on the situation like if u do something good there will be good consequences which arent punishments but if you do somthing bad there will be bad consequences which are punishements.

1# the answer is c

2#the answer is a