Dramatic irony; the reader already knows what is going to happen.
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Roderick Usher is convinced that the inanimate universe is full of "sentience," that seemingly dead objects or matter, such as the "atmosphere" he describes encircling his home, are endowed with senses and perhaps even life of their own. When Poe introduces this concept, it seems almost a digression.
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The crowd wants to see Orwell shoot and kill the elephant, but he does not want to.
Explanation:
Orwell states that one should not shoot a working elephant because it's like shooting an expensive piece of machinery. Also, he believes his attack of "must" is wearing off, as the elephant is calmly eating. Orwell feels that he will just wander off. Shooting the elephant for Orwell is symbolic of his role as a colonial police officer. He doesn't want to be there; he doesn't want to act the part of an agent of imperialism, but he has no choice. Orwell has to kill the elephant; he has to show the natives that he won't hesitate to use force, whether it's against a raging elephant or a crowd of restless Burmese engaged in public disorder. However, even if the Burmese are overawed by his authority as a police officer, they will always resent him. If he doesn't shoot the elephant, then he'll be considered weak as well as remaining a figure of hate.
The sentence that shows proper parallel structure is B) Judith dislikes people who are rude, selfish, and self-centered.
It is called parallel structure to <u>the repetition of a grammatical form within the same sentence</u>. In other words, it refers to the use of the same grammatical pattern in order to make the sentence clearer for the reader.
In sentence B) "people" is modified by a defining relative clause ("who are rude, selfish and self-centered"). <u>The defining relative clause includes three adjectives</u> ("rude", "selfish" and "self-centered")<u> and that is what makes the sentence a parallel structure. </u>
<u>Sentence B) is the only sentence where grammatical forms have not been mixed.</u> Sentence A) presents two independent clauses ("Judith dislikes people who are rude, selfish" and "they are self-centered"), which results in the separation of the last adjective and a breakdown in the parallel construction. In sentence C) "self-centered" is premodified by the adverb "very", which also creates a faulty parallelism. Sentence D) does not show a proper parallel structure either since it includes a verb ("act") in the defining relative clause.