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It is a simile, because it says things "like". Answer: simile. Hope this helps :D
It would be a Simile
Which best explains how the use of parallelism in this excerpt supports Baldwin's purpose?
A. It emphasizes what Baldwin thinks matters and doesn't matter.
B. It uses contrasting ideas in the same sentence to emphasize their differences.
C. It employs a story-like structure to draw attention to theme of hatred.
D. It repeats the word folly to emphasize the mistakes white people have made.
The correct option is A.
Parallelism refers to the construction of sentences by using elements that are grammatically identical in structure, meaning or sound. Authors usually use parallelism in their works in order to draw the readers' attention to the similarity or the differences of ideas by the way they arrange them in the sentence. In the passage given above, Baldwin used parallelism in order to emphasize the things that are important and the things that are not.
b.The children, sweaty and miserable, piled into the bus.
c.They put the baby, who was fast asleep, in his crib.
d.The girls, overwhelmed by the sale, bought many shoes.
e.The child, who was now wailing, ran toward his mother.