Ithought i could outrun my grief, but looking back now, i
see it had followed me everywhere. it was there in boston.
it was there in amarillo and in seattle. it was even here in
charlotte. i carried it with me like an overstuffed backpack.
how does the author's use of parallelism most clearly support the central
idea?
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a. it emphasizes the number of places the speaker's grief followed
him.
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b. it illustrates how the grief is like a backpack because the speaker
carried it with him everywhere.
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c. it makes readers consider how grief affected the speaker in each
town.
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d. it calls attention to the similarities between grief and a backpack!
because it was so overstuffed.

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21 balloons is the story of professor william sherman's travels.

in 1883, he set off from san francisco for a balloon ride over the pacific and was found a month later floating with 21 balloons in the atlantic ocean. this seemed an astounding feat and everyone wanted to know what had happened.    

professor sherman was loyal, however, and said he would tell his tale first to the western american explorers club in san francisco, of which he was a member. this built up suspense for several chapters before he began to tell of the wonders of his adventures and the amazing island of krakatoa, an island which had just been blown up by a volcano.  

the residents of krakatoa are all millionaires who live under a "gourmet government" of their own devising. we get to see all the incredible adventures that creative people with unlimited resources would create according to the author.

hi there!

read the sentence. select the words that best complete the two blanks.

though the road they took was long and they continued to plod

answer: a. listless, and steadily

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