This metaphor compares their mouth to a desert. This means that either his mouth was too dry to say anything, or that no words would come out of his mouth just as their is not much in a sandy desert.
Before buying the 2nd largest house, he lived in Stratford-upon-Avon
A) As I picked up the telephone, my stomach flipped and my mouth dried like a desert.
One effect that parallelism has on a written work is that it emphasizes ideas.
Explanation: Parallelism is a literary device that is used in many literary genres, even though is mainly used in poetry.
Well they were good friends then Brutus was in the act of helping kill Julius sooo yeah