Question

What is/are the effect(s) of the parallelism used in the above excerpt? Select all that apply.

Answer 1

It emphasizes the confession, the telling of what survivors saw.
It emphasizes the emotion in the words.

Answer 2

Answer:

The two choices would be: It emphasizes the confession, the telling of what survivors saw, and also, It emphasizes the emotion in the words.

Explanation:

Parallelism, or the use of a parallel structure, grammatically speaking, means that you use clauses, that complement each other, or increase information about one another, by using the same grammatical structure in all of them. In this particular excerpt, the parallelism, which starts after a colon, not only expands on the information given in the clause before, but it also increases the sentimentality towards what the survivors have witnessed, and it touches a reader´s emotions and makes the reader realize how deep the feelings in the speaker were.