Read the excerpt from a creative nonfiction assignment.

The dog trotted behind me as I hiked through the woods. A dog is a loyal companion, I thought to myself, even when the person it's loyal to is a total stranger. Up ahead, I saw my old friend, Lake Tasika. I looked at the dog. He looked at me, tail waving. I looked at the lake. It looked back at me. "Jump in,” it said in cool laps against the bank, though I’d never jumped in before. "Why not?” I said aloud to the dog. The dog barked his affirmation, though I was no expert on the meaning behind dog barks. I dropped my pack and ran.

How does the author’s use of parallelism contribute to the mood of the excerpt?

A- It creates an eager mood by repeating actions taken and observed by the narrator.
B- It creates an annoyed mood by showing how the narrator views the dog as a nuisance.
C- It creates a serene mood by emphasizing the solace and joy the lake provides to the narrator.
D- It creates a lonely mood by imitating an echo sometimes found near a remote mountain lake.

The author's use of parallelism contributes to the mood of the excerpt because it creates an eager mood by repeating actions taken and observed by the narrator.

What is mood?

The mood in a story is the ambient or atmosphere the author creates to involve the readers and evoke feelings. Mood is created through the use of, for example:

Words

Phrases

Expressions or idioms

Descriptions

What is parallelism?

Parallelism is a type of repetition. We repeat grammatical structures in a sentence or in a paragraph, usually with the purpose of emphasizing an idea or of improving readability.

Now, we must analyze how the parallelism in the excerpt affects the mood in the story. We can find parallelism here:

"I looked at the dog. He looked at me, tail waving. I looked at the lake. It looked back at me."

The use of subject + looked + complement helps the narrator create an eager mood. He is repeating actions taken and observed by him/her as a means to leave reader curious, eager to know what will happen next, just like the dog is eager to see the narrator jump.

With the information above in mind, we can choose option A as the correct answer.

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