Read the excerpt from Yves’s rhetorical analysis essay of Shirley Chisholm’s presidential announcement speech. Yves wants to rev
ise the essay to improve his analysis. Chisholm says, "Those of you who can now vote for the first time, those of you who agree with me that the institutions of this country belong to all of the people who inhabit it, those of you who have been neglected, left out, ignored, forgotten, or shunned aside for whatever reason: Give me your help at this hour.” In these lines, she uses parallelism and diction to make her speech resonate with people who have felt excluded from the political conversation.
Which sentence is the best addition to improve his analysis?
Chisholm’s strong, forceful words describe the ways her listeners have felt in the past.
Chisholm’s mention of “those of you who agree with me” creates a direct link to her listeners.
Chisholm’s listing of the words “neglected, left out, ignored, forgotten, or shunned” accentuates the problems many listeners experienced and connects listeners to her as a solution.
Chisholm’s reference to first-time voters highlights the new perspective she will bring to governing underrepresented citizens.
The third answer option is the correct answer, as it improves the author's analysis. This option states that: "Chisholm’s listing of the words “neglected, left out, ignored, forgotten, or shunned” accentuates the problems many listeners experienced and connects listeners to her as a solution."
This sentence shows that the author used parallelism stressing the importance of voting to people who are marginalized and excluded by politics.
<h3>How is parallelism significant in this text?</h3>
The author shows how neglect of politics harms people.
The author shows that only voting can solve this.
The author shows that neglected people are important for changing national policy.
It is important to emphasize that parallelism is the technique that structures a sentence with similarclauses and with the same grammatical construction.
The direct object of a verb is the thing being acted upon. Ex: Play <u>the guitar. </u>the direct object is "the guitar.<u>" </u>Every actor played<u> his part. </u>the direct object is "his part"<u> </u>
