Read the excerpt from part 2 of zeitoun. only birds would survive this sort of apocalypse. birds, some snakes, any beast that could find higher ground ahead of the rising tide. he looked for fish. if he was floating atop water shared with the lake, surely fish had been swept into the city. and, on cue, he saw a murky form darting between submerged tree branches. what is happening in the excerpt? zeitoun is considering the religious nature of the flood. zeitoun rejoices at the sight of birds in the trees. zeitoun spots fish swimming in the flood waters. zeitoun is contemplating the survival of domestic pets.

The correct answer is "C" :)

"Zeitoun spots fish swimming in the flood waters."

faulty parallelism is a grammar construction where there is no balance in the parts of a sentence they have a similar meaning but the grammar structure is not equivalent.

the correct version of this faulty parallelism in the sentence is:

jefferson wrote the declaration of independence, and he was the nation's third president.

the problem with the first version is that the sentence:

"jefferson was both the writer of the declaration of independence"

presents jefferson as both a subject and an agent for the verb "write" because if he was "the writer" then the declaration of independence was written by him, besides that fact, the sentence presents a dependent clause.

while the second sentence:

he was the nation's third president.

presents a basic subject+verb+object structure

so, to give a proper balance to the structure, or better said, to give a parallel structure, we must write a basic s+v+o structure in both sentences:

jefferson wrote the declaration of independence, and he was the nation third president.

being ignored by someone and then accepting the fact was really tough