Read the excerpt from Heart of a Samurai. But the wind beat it against the mast until it was torn into shreds. The wind pushed the sea into great mountains of water; it tore the oars from the men's hands and flung them into the sea; and finally, it snapped the mast, then ripped the rudder away from the boat. What does the author’s use of strong words help the reader imagine? a. storm clouds forming b. an angry, active stormc. a storm that is dying out d. the calm after a storm

b. an angry, active stormc.

Explanation:"The wind pushed the sea"

"the wind beat it against the mast until it was torn into shreds"

"it tore the oars from the men's hands and flung them into the sea; "

"then ripped the rudder away from the boat." All of these sentences show us that the storm is violent and ripping out everything around it. So it is an active and angry storm.

The answer is B.

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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.