B is the answer hope this helps I took the quiz btw so this should be correct
An essay is, generally, a piece of writing that gives the author's own argument.
The correct answer is: [B]: "parallelism" .
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Talk: if the word "did"(helping verb) is in front of the word it is meaning that someone spoke in the past, but if the helping verb "will" is before the word it means that someone is going to speak in the future (most likely about to start talking)
talk-"ing": the same thing as "talk" EXCEPT "ing" is a suffix which means presently, so "talking" means that someone is currently speaking.
talk-"ed": once again the same thing, however, the suffix "ed" means already DID or in the past.
talk- "en": actually this is sadly not an english word, but the suffix "en" means made of. For example, "golden" means MADE OF gold.
Hope this helped:)
Answer: B. It causes the main character to act in a machinelike way.