Answer:
B: The parallel structure emphasizes the idea that the creative process is easily and often interrupted by life’s events and obligations.
Explanation:
According to the excerpt from A Room Of One's Own, the writer talks about the difficulties in writing a work of genius ad several factors would be against it such as dogs barking, health failing, people interrupting, etc.
The purpose of the rhetorical device used in the underlined sentence is that the parallel structure emphasizes the idea that the creative process is easily and often interrupted by life’s events and obligations.
Well we want people to be there for us and love us so when someone comes around and you really like them, even if you haven’t known them for long you want them to be there for you, it feels good to have friends and/or people that will be there for you to talk and love you.
It’s the 3rd option. The clock is representing their lives ticking away slowly