Answer:
"At any rate, " said the bachelor, collecting his belongings preparatory to leaving the carriage, "I kept them quiet for ten minutes, which was more than you were able to do."
Explanation:
"If we wish to be free-if we mean to preserve", "if we mean not basely to abandon" AND "which we have been so long contending", "which we have been so long engaged", "which we have pledged".
Parallelism is the repetition of the same grammatical structure. There are two instances of parallel structure in this excerpt. The first is the "If we ___ to ___" structure. The second is the "which we have _______" structure. By filling the passage with this parallel structure is gives the sense of a list of reasons that all, compounding on top of one another, logically lead to the need to fight. The change from the parallel structures in the last line "we must fight!" makes this exclamation stand out and hold power.
The answer is A: sinking because gothic means something’s gloomy and eerie. Sinking is the only word that is gloomy and eerie. Hope this helped!
1. at the soccer game, the fans cheered, clapped and stamped their feet.
2. “no i can’t leave here at this moment” linda replied.
3. “The Princess and the Frog” is the name of a fairytale.
4. the police officer asked “what is your fathers name?”
which sentence part includes the subject and main action? = I bought the materials I needed.
which sentence part tells when the action takes place? = Over the next week
which sentence part tells why the action is done? = so that I could put my plan into action.
#hope this helps
