1. Reread this passage from Josh Billings's lecture on "Snails, Snakes, and Babies." The striped snake is one of the slipperiest jobs that nature ever turned loose.

They travel on the lower side of themselves, and can slip out of sight like blowing out a candle. They were made for some good purpose, but I never have been informed for what, unless it was to have their heads smashed.

They are said to be innocent, but they have got a bad reputation, and all the innocence in the world won't cure a bad reputation.

Which style of comedy does the passage demonstrate?

appeals to readers' emotions

the frequent use of folksy sayings eloquent,

complex arguments

a reliance on multiple-meaning words​

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Explanation:

faulty parallelism is a grammar construction where there is no balance in the parts of a sentence they have a similar meaning but the grammar structure is not equivalent.

the correct version of this faulty parallelism in the sentence is:

jefferson wrote the declaration of independence, and he was the nation's third president.

the problem with the first version is that the sentence:

"jefferson was both the writer of the declaration of independence"

presents jefferson as both a subject and an agent for the verb "write" because if he was "the writer" then the declaration of independence was written by him, besides that fact, the sentence presents a dependent clause.

while the second sentence:

he was the nation's third president.

presents a basic subject+verb+object structure

so, to give a proper balance to the structure, or better said, to give a parallel structure, we must write a basic s+v+o structure in both sentences:

jefferson wrote the declaration of independence, and he was the nation third president.

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