When Reverend Jesse Jackson says,"We must relate instead of debate;we must inspire instead of retire;and we must repair instead of despair," what linguistic device is he using?
A)metaphor
B)omission
C)parallelism
D)inversion

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Reverend Jesse Jackson is using parallelism, which is the repetition of a grammatical structure. In this case, each statement starts with "we must" followed by a verb, creating a parallel structure that emphasizes his message.

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