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The right answer for the question that is being asked and shown above is that: "It adds to the high standard the speaker is claiming one must meet to love another."In this excerpt from “A Woman’s Shortcomings” by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, this is the effect of parallelism
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She had been so worried that her boy-friend, Alex, would have gone through it by now seeing as she forgot it here in his room a couple of days back.
It would have been monumentally embarrassing if he had gone through the journal because it contained details of her life for the past three years including her most embarrassing moments as well as int-imate details with her two previous boy-friends.
Angela breathed a sigh of relief and hid the journal in her bag before she stepped out of the room and said her goodbyes to Alex's mom. She did not know it but she was smiling all the way home.