But this sense of decency was now gone from our society — gone from the homes, gone from the schools, gone from the churches even! why, a saturday at the market was starting to sound like a trip to a pool hall! how does the author's use of parallelism most clearly support the central idea? a. it calls attention to the great difference between homes, schools, and churches. b. it illustrates how widely the author has searched for any sign of decency. c. it emphasizes the absence of decency from several facets of society. d. it makes readers consider areas of their own society that are lacking decency.

Read the excerpt from "politics and the english language" by george orwell. by this morning’s post i have received a pamphlet dealing with conditions in germany. the author tells me that he "felt impelled” to write it. i open it at random, and here is almost the first sentence that i see: "[the allies] have an opportunity not only of achieving a radical transformation of germany’s social and political structure in such a way as to avoid a nationalistic reaction in germany itself, but at the same time of laying the foundations of a cooperative and unified europe.” which statement is correct? orwell uses an example and statistical evidence in this excerpt. orwell uses an example and a quotation for evidence in this excerpt. orwell uses hypothetical and factual evidence in this excerpt. orwell uses hypothetical and statistical evidence in this excerpt.