Help Which sentence uses the semicolon correctly? O 1. The extremely hot summer afternoons of southern Spain are best spent indoors indulging in a post-lunch siesta (nap); watching
television, or doing homework, most people avoid going outside again until at least 8:00 or 9:00 p. m., when the heat finally begins to
subside.
O 2. The extremely hot summer afternoons of southern Spain are best spent indoors indulging in a post-lunch siesta (nap), watching
television, or doing homework; most people avoid going outside again until at least 8:00 or 9:00 p. m., when the heat finally begins to
subside.
03. The extremely hot summer afternoons of southern Spain are best spent indoors indulging in a post-lunch siesta (nap); watching
television; or doing homework, most people avoid going outside again until at least 8:00 or 9:00 p. m., when the heat finally begins to
subside.
O 4. The extremely hot summer afternoons of southern Spain are best spent indoors indulging in a post-lunch siesta (nap), watching
television, or doing homework, most people avoid going outside again until at least 8:00 or 9:00 p. m.; when the heat finally begins to
subside.

O 2. The extremely hot summer afternoons of southern Spain are best spent indoors indulging in a post-lunch siesta (nap), watching  television, or doing homework; most people avoid going outside again until at least 8:00 or 9:00 p.m., when the heat finally begins to  subside.

Explanation:

A semi-colon is a punctuation mark that is used to separate two or more related independent clauses without the use of a coordinating conjunction. It is also used to list items or elements of a sentence and can be used to join and separate the sentences that are related.

In the given options, the correct usage of the semicolon is seen in sentence 2. This is because the first part of the sentence contains a number of things that can be done whereas the second part talks about a related topic but different from the first part.

In the first independent clause, we use the comma to separate the lists and then use a semi-colon to separate but join the two independent clauses together.

Thus, the correct answer is option 2.

the rhetorical technique most used in this excerpt is parallelism. parallelism is a technique which author used in sentence as substitute of repeated synthetical similarities. it is the effect of rhetorical technique.

explanation:

try to do soaps tone.

s-subject

o-occasion (the reason the author wrote the poem)

a-audience (who is this poem mostly for)

p-purpose (was it to convince, inspire, etc. the audience)

s-speaker (can be the author or another character, like is a child, adult, woman, elderly, animal narrating the poem)

tone- the mood the reader gets from this poem

mood- the mood the author had with their own poem

meaning- what do you think the meaning is?

message- what is the author trying to explain to the audience? like what is the theme?

if you still don't get it try showing everyone the poem so they could unravel it