a. Spending a considerable amount of time doing repetitive tasks with a person's hands can lead to carpal tunnel syndrome (Ionta 38).
This is the correct parenthetical citation. There are no signal words in the sentence that indicate the author of the cited passage. Therefore, the author needs to be included in the parenthetical citation. Also, needed in the parenthetical citation is the location where the information was found. This information was found on page 38. The author's name comes before the page number because the author's name is what will be used first when determining the source of the information. The reader would look for the author in the Works Cited page, then need to acquire the source before turning to page 38. It's also important that the parenthetical information be inside the period with the rest of the cited information. This connects everything together.
This is important to have a better understanding of why the author chose to write the paragraph
The answer is ABABCDCD as the two lines that rhyme are equal to the same letter. E.g. Line 1 and Line 3 both end with a word that rhyme with each other and the Line 1 is the first line of the poem, resulting it in being represented by A. The same thing applies to the rest of the poem
I hope that makes some sense :)