Read the following excerpt from james baldwin's "notes of a native son":

but i knew that it was folly, as my father would have said, this bitterness was folly. it was necessary to hold on to the things that mattered. the dead man mattered, the new life mattered; blackness and whiteness did not matter; to believe that they did was to acquiesce in one's own destruction. hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated and this was an immutable law.

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.

1. read the following excerpt from franklin d. roosevelt's "fireside chat 19":

on the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that guerilla warfare against the germans in, let us say serbia or norway, us; that a successful russian offensive against the germans us; and that british successes on land or sea in any part of the world strengthen our hands.

remember always that germany and italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the united states at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with britain or russia. and germany puts all the other republics of the americas into the same category of enemies. the people of our sister republics of this hemisphere can be honored by that fact.  

the true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle. when we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. we americans are not destroyers — we are builders.

analyze the effectiveness of this excerpt. how does it function within the speech as a whole? how does the structure of the excerpt to convey the speech's purpose and key points? support your argument with evidence from the speech. (10 points)

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