Read the excerpt below and answer the question. coming back, he walked through the bar-room, where people waiting for the train were drinking. they were all waiting reasonably for the train. he went out through the bead curtain. she was sitting at the table and smiled at him. "do you feel better? " he asked. "i feel fine," she said. "there's nothing wrong with me. i feel fine." the tone of this passage from "hills like white elephants" is a. climactic b. descriptive c. emotional d. understated

I think the correct answer would be "understated."

The tone of this passage from "Hills Like White Elephants" is:

C. emotional. These characters are troubled inwardly, but they do their best to keep their emotions bottled up.

faulty parallelism is a construction in which two or more parts of a sentence are equivalent in meaning but not grammatically similar in form.

the correct version of this faulty parallelism in the sentence is:

the hikers knew that the hike was six miles, that it usually required the entire day, and it would not be wise to start after 10: 00 a.m.

the problem is the last sentence, the first two have a basic subject+verb+object structure.

so, to give a proper balance to the structure, or better said, to give a parallel structure, we must write a basic s+v+o structure in all three sentences:

the hikers knew that the hike was six miles, that it usually required the entire day, and it would not be wise to start after 10: 00 a.m.