Read the following sentence and answer the question. What I wrote about the poem and what I said in class affected my grade for the course.

Which type of parallel structure is used in this excerpt?

to compare and contrast ideas
to link two dependent clauses
to balance independent clauses in a sentence
to balance phrases

both the address and the poster use diction to convey their message. diction is defined as a style of writing or speaking based on the types of words chosen in order to send a message. parallelism is when a similar sentence structure is used for several sentences on a text; roosevelt's address doesn't follow that. repetition has to do with repeating a word or sentence in order to emphasize and idea, however neither the poster nor the address use repetion. finally, the address doesn't use images to convey a message.

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b : the uninhabited house represents the narrator's feeling of emptiness.

c: the blind street symbolizes the aimless and drab life on north richmond street.

d: the consciousness of decent lives symbolizes a comparison of neighbors' lives.