Read the following excerpt from chapter 21 of john steinbeck’s the grapes of wrath analyze how the author uses rhetorical devices of parallelism and diction to convey the tone of text. be sure to include specific details from the texts to support your answer

Ineed . read the passage, and choose the two (2) inferences that are most firmly based on the given information. up through the 1700s, many europeans believed that a king’s touch could cure diseases. at his coronation in 1775, for example, king louis the sixteenth of france touched 2,400 of his ailing subjects. 1. the touch of a king truly has special healing power others do not have 2. there had been other kings of france named louis. 3. french coronations were public events. 4. the french suffered