Alcinous is denying Odysseus's request for sleep.
The best way to ensure parallel construction in your essay is to use similar (C) sentence structure throughout the essay.
Parallel structure (parallelism) is when similar sentence structure is used throughout the essay. This is done to ensure coherence.
Fitzgerald had the owl eyed man<span> at the funeral, because he was the only one in this society that saw the real Gatsby. The Owl-Eyed </span>Man<span> is similar to the billboard for Dr. T. J. </span>Eckleburg<span> with the "all-seeing" eyes. Both symbolize an uninvolved, spectator god.</span>