John Oakhurst was permitted to leave Poker Flat because the townspeople owed him money.
a. true
b. false

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:

roses are red,

violets are black,

for what you said,

i hope you sit on a big fat tack.

b. brooks wrote about the same type of neighborhood in which she grew up.

eager to consume a lot of food? insatiable appetite?

explanation: