All of the following word groups show parallelism except <span><u>smiling at my mother, when I cleaned my room, to ask my parents for a favor.</u>
Parallelism refers to the usage of the same form throughout a sentence or a list of phrases. You can see that A, B, and D all have the same form in all of these examples, whereas in C they vary.</span>
The topic sentence for the paragraph above is A. Sentence 1. A topic sentence is supposed to give the general idea of a paragraph. Sentence 1 briefly describes what and where plates are in the Earth's crust. The rest of the sentences give more detail about tectonic plates.
Answer:
"On the Bus with Rosa Parks"
In this excerpt, the poet’s narration reveals the poet’s feeling of pride in Rosa Parks.
Explanation:
"On the Bus with Rosa Parks" was a book of poems written by Pulitzer Prize winner and former U.S. Poet Laureate Rita Dove in 1925. It described Rosa Parks, the black woman who refused to give up her seat for a white man and played a pivotal role in the Montgomery bus boycott, galvanizing the Supreme Court to declare bus segregation laws null and void and ensured the end of segregation in buses.
"Nevertheless, a ruler must make himself feared in a way such
that, even if he does not become loved, he does not become hated."
