Will someone help me out with my English assignment, please? Rewrite each of the following sentences to illustrate parallel structure.

1. We have begun to exercise more, to get regular check-ups, and dieting.

2. To go on picnics, taking part in sports, and vacationing with my family are my favorite summer activities.

3. The concert made many new friends for us, attracted a great deal of publicity, and that it earned a lot of money.

4. Our coach excels in setting possible goals for us and then to praise us for reaching them.

5. This rodeo performer has won awards in seven states for bull riding, calf roping, and he does barrel racing.

6. The walnut shelf by the window is for trophies, portraits, and where I like to display dishes.

7. The two things I liked most about the class were that it had a great teacher and discussing philosophy.

8. My Aunt Pauline has a reputation for her oyster dressing, cole slaw, and baking blueberry muffins.

9. John makes a great pot of coffee, he tells a good story, and listening to anyone's problems with a sympathetic ear.

10. Each boy had a different problem: Fred, shin splints; Ralph, torn ligaments; Jack, a shoulder separation; Tom, sneezed and coughed.

11. Application Activity

"the children's hour" by henry wadsworth longfellow between the dark and the daylight, when the night is beginning to lower, comes a pause in the day's occupations, that is known as the children's hour. i hear in the chamber above me the patter of little feet, the sound of a door that is opened, and voices soft and sweet. from my study i see in the lamplight, descending the broad hall stair, grave alice, and laughing allegra, and edith with golden hair. a whisper, and then a silence: yet i know by their merry eyes they are plotting and planning together to take me by surprise. a sudden rush from the stairway, a sudden raid from the hall! by three doors left unguarded they enter my castle wall! they climb up into my turret o'er the arms and back of my chair; if i try to escape, they surround me; they seem to be everywhere. they almost devour me with kisses, their arms about me entwine, till i think of the bishop of bingen in his mouse-tower on the rhine! do you think, o blue-eyed banditti, because you have scaled the wall, such an old mustache as i am is not a match for you all! i have you fast in my fortress, and will not let you depart, but put you down into the dungeon in the round-tower of my heart. and there will i keep you forever, yes, forever and a day, till the walls shall crumble to ruin, and moulder in dust away! which literary device does longfellow use most frequently in the poem? a. simile b. metaphor c. repetition d. personification

What is the central idea of paragraph 1 of the story?

When a mother loses her child, she's — highly agitated from strong emotion. a scene is if there's lots of action with little order.