Answer: A) It calls attention to the amount of work Ma did for the family.
Explanation: parallelism 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 passage, the speaker uses parallelism when describing all the things Ma did for him and his family, so the correct answer is option A.
It is the very first line from the poem “Silver” by Walter de la Mare that best illustrates alliteration, mostly because in this line the author uses a variety of syllables.
