<span>The tulips were bright slashes of color like a child's crayon drawing.
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That sentence is an example of parallel structure.
When there is repetition of a specific grammatical form in a sentence, parallelism or a parallel structure is produced. This occurs when you mantain the same pattern for every compared word or idea in your construction. This makes the idea easier to follow by the reader.
<span>The beginning of an MLA citation is "lastname, firstname". B and C don't follow this, so you can eliminate them. Then you notice at the end of the citation, the pages cited has to be preceded by a "pp". Choice A doesn't follow that, so we can also eliminate that choice. The remaining choice "D" is a correct citation.
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