Read the excerpt below and answer the question.

"Comrades!" he cried. "You do not imagine, I hope, that we pigs are doing this in a spirit of selfishness and privilege? Many of us actually dislike milk and apples. I dislike them myself. Our sole object in taking these things is to preserve our health. Milk and apples (this has been proved by Science, comrades) contain substances absolutely necessary to the well-being of a pig. We pigs are brainworkers. The whole management and organisation of this farm depend on us. Day and night we are watching over your welfare. It is for YOUR sake that we drink that milk and eat those apples. Do you know what would happen if we pigs failed in our duty? Jones would come back! Yes, Jones would come back! Surely, comrades," cried Squealer almost pleadingly, skipping from side to side and whisking his tail, "surely there is no one among you who wants to see Jones come back?"

Orwell uses parallel structure in this excerpt from Animal Farm to emphasize the key point that _____.

A. pigs are very manipulative animals

B. pigs always deceive the other animals

C. Communist leaders use deceptive language

D. Communist leaders treat the proletariat fairly

Respuesta :

A. pigs are very manipulative animals

Answer: A) pigs are very manipulative animals.

Explanation: parallelism or parallel structure is a literary device that consists in the repetition of the grammatical structure of different words or phrases in a sentence or paragraph, in order to emphasize an idea or to create an impact in the audience. In the given excerpt we can see examples of parallel structure in the use of phrases like "we pigs" and in the use of short sentences, this structure is used to emphasize that pigs are very manipulative animals.

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