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Which rhetorical devices did thoreau use in "Resistance to civil government"

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The rhetorical devices that Thoreau used in Resistance to the civil government are:

Metaphor: is used to help the reader to understand the argument he is trying to say. Government as a machine (mechanical, unnatural, dehumanized).

Anaphora: Thoreau uses repetition and parallel structures. For example, repetition of "Why" or "does not".

Allusion: Christ, Copernicus, Luther, Washington and Franklin rebels.

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