What might happen if a family had a child of the less desired gender? They might abandon the child.

They might break the law to have another child.

They would accept the burden of the child.

All of these were possibilities.

What are the effects of parallel structure in this excerpt? check all that apply. it adds emphasis to the verbs that describe the british government’s oppression. it uses repetition to add power to the colonists’ growing list of grievances. it stresses jefferson’s list of grievances, giving the reader a sense of the amount of time the colonists have been oppressed. it emphasizes that all of these acts were carried out by the same person.