Which sentence from the selection demonstrates parallelism? a) "to him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity." eliminate b) "within the now-famous address is what historian philip s. foner has called 'probably the most moving passage in all of douglass' speeches.'" c) "there is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices more shocking and bloody than are the people of the united states, at this very hour." d) "on july 5, 1852, douglass gave a speech at an event commemorating the signing of the declaration of independence, held at rochester's corinthian hall."

A) "To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity." This sentence is an instance of parallellism. The same pattern is repeated- look at the underlined words-. Subject + to be + complement. However, this pattern is used in "your celebration is a sham". In the other two structures the verb to be has been omitted and a comma has been used,instead. " your boasted liberty, (is) an unholy license; your national greatness, (is) swelling vanity." The verb to be can be taken out since it can be easily retrieved from the context. If it is ellided, it should be replaced by a comma.

A is the correct answer

1. read the following excerpt from franklin d. roosevelt's "fireside chat 19":

on the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that guerilla warfare against the germans in, let us say serbia or norway, us; that a successful russian offensive against the germans us; and that british successes on land or sea in any part of the world strengthen our hands.

remember always that germany and italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the united states at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with britain or russia. and germany puts all the other republics of the americas into the same category of enemies. the people of our sister republics of this hemisphere can be honored by that fact.  

the true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle. when we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. we americans are not destroyers — we are builders.

analyze the effectiveness of this excerpt. how does it function within the speech as a whole? how does the structure of the excerpt to convey the speech's purpose and key points? support your argument with evidence from the speech. (10 points)

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