3. Read this passage from Walden, looking for examples of literary devices.
Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it; but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains. I would drink deeper;
fish in the sky, whose bottom is pebbly with stars. I cannot count one.
What device does Thoreau use in this passage?
rhetorical question
historical allusion
figurative language
logical argument
