Read the passage from a room of one’s own. and one gathers from this enormous modern literature of confession and self-analysis that to write a work of genius is almost always a feat of prodigious difficulty. everything is against the likelihood that it will come from the writer's mind whole and entire. generally material circumstances are against it. dogs will bark; people will interrupt; money must be made; health will break down. what is the purpose of the rhetorical device used in the underlined sentence? the parallel structure emphasizes the idea that creative work is much more challenging than other types of work. the parallel structure emphasizes the idea that the creative process is easily and often interrupted by life’s events and obligations. the understatement emphasizes the idea that creative work is more important than life’s everyday obligations. the metaphor emphasizes the idea that the creative process is easily and often interrupted by life’s events and obligations.

The parallel structure emphasizes the idea that the creative process is easily and often interrupted by life’s events and obligations.

The parallel structure emphasizes the idea that the creative process is easily and often interrupted by life’s events and obligations.

Explanation:

The interruptions include the barking of the dogs, interference of people, obligation of making the money, and the breaking down of health. These interruptions are done when the person is in the process of making a creative piece of work. Everything becomes against the entire process of creative creation. Material circumstances are more likely to be against the process.

d.) then bernice winced as marjorie tossed her own hair over her shoulders and began to twist it slowly into two long blond braids until in her cream-colored negligée she looked like a delicate painting of some saxon princess. fascinated, bernice watched the braids grow. heavy and luxurious they were, moving under the supple fingers like restive snakes—and to bernice remained this relic and the curling iron and a to-morrow full of eyes.

not sure but i think it’s the snug nest