Read the following line from Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Self-Reliance":

"Imitation is suicide".

Which of these rhetorical devices does Emerson use here?

A. Parallelism

B. Alliteration

C. Metaphor

D. Stanza

The line from Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Self-Reliance": "Imitation is suicide" uses the rhetorical device which is metaphor. The correct answer is option C. A metaphor is a figure of speech that creates an implied comparison between two objects that are usually not related. In this line, the word "imitation" is compared to "suicide".