Explain why each excerpt is an example of parallelism. 1.
Tick-tock, seven o’clock, time to get up, time to get up, seven o’clock!

2.
…eight pieces of perfectly browned toast, eight eggs sunnyside up, sixteen slices of bacon, two coffees, and two cool glasses of milk.

3.
Read this excerpt from “There Will Come Soft Rains.” Rewrite the excerpt on the lines, adding parallelism in your own words.
…other choruses, oblivious, could be heard announcing the time,

playing music, cutting the lawn by remote-control mower, or setting

an umbrella frantically out and in the slamming and opening front

door, a thousand things happening…

Parallelism is the repetition of the same form of words or verbs in a sentence is explained as parallelism.

All the sentences given in the questions give the example of parallelism. It contains the repetition of the same form of words.

In the first sentence qualities of a morning is mentioned. In second sentence all the food items are written.

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your answer is a) the metaphor suggests that the poetic themes are serious and dark.

collins is comparing the poem to a dark room. he is suggesting that the poems theme is serious and wants you to understand it. you don't need to understand the poet in order to understand the poem. you also don't need to move around while reading it. he is simply saying the poem has a dark and serious theme.

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