Answer:
I like to read several things: newspapers, magazines, books, and poetry.
Explanation:
I used bold font where I edited the sentence. When you use the colon(:), you are about to use a list. That is exactly what happens in this sentence, so you replace the semicolon(;) which is used to join two or more ideas.
Whenever you are at the end of a list, you always add a comma(,) at the end of the last item before "and," so I put a comma there.
The right answer for the question that is being asked and shown above is that: "D. It repeats the word folly to emphasize the mistakes white people have made." the statement that best explains how the use of parallelism in this excerpt supports Baldwin's purpose is that D. It repeats the word folly to emphasize the mistakes white people have made.<span>
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