Apolo Ohno entered short-track speed skating competitions and was recognized as Olympic material. He won the U. S. championship at age 14 he was motivated to train hard for the Olympics. But when he went home to Seattle, he took up with his old friends. Out of shape, he finished last in the Olympic trials his father, Yukio, was disgusted and desperate. Instead of driving his son home, he dropped him at a rented cabin. It had food and heat but no phone or television. Hetelevision, he told Apolo to think about what he wanted to do. Yukio would come back for him in a week. Apolo decided to get serious about his life and his skating. Heskating he told his father that he didn't want to end up like his friends in Seattle. This time when he started training for the Olympics, he didn't let up. His hard work paid off in Salt Lake City. HeCity, he won the gold medal in the 1500-meter event and silver in the 1000-meter.

When i was young enough to still spend a long time buttoning my shoes in the morning, i'd listen toward the hall: daddy upstairs was shaving, in the bathroom, and mother downstairs was frying the bacon. they would begin whispering back and forth to each other up and down the stairwell. my father would whistle his phrase, my mother would try to whistle, then hum hers backi drew my buttonhook in and out and listened to it -know it was "the merry widow." the difference was, their song almost floated with laughter. how different from the record, which growled from the beginning, as if the victrola were only slowly being wound up. they kept it running between them, up and down the stairs where i was now just about ready to run clattering down and show them my shoes. what is the effect of the parallelism used in the above excerpt? it establishes the rhythm of a duet to echo the song. it expresses the same ideas. it mirrors opposite ideas. it is a paradox.

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Is expression of words or ideas opposed to what is literally meant or expected called.