The little farmers watched debt creep up on them like the tide. they sprayed the trees and solid no crop, the pruned and grafted and could not pick the crop. which statement best describes the syntax of the passage ?

The correct answer is A) The author repeats words and employs parallelism.

The statement that best describes the tone of this passage is "The author repeats words and employs parallelism. "

We can see how parallelism is used in the sentences above. Parallelism is a grammatical term to arrange words of the same syntactical construction in phrases or clauses. It is used to have a parallel structure or the same structure.

The other options of the question are B) The author feels frustrated for the farmers, C) The author uses the word "creep" to emphasize that debt is sinister, and D) The author uses descriptive words to show what the farmers have done.

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