And the Eldest Magician said, "How wise are littlechildren who see and are silent! What was the beastlike?"What evidence supports the conclusion that theauthor's purpose is to teach a moral to children?O 'He was round and he was flat."O "Now I know where Pau Amma went."O "He was covered with strong armour upon his back."O "How wise are little children who speak truth!"And the little girl-daughter said, "He was round and hewas flat; and his eyes grew upon stalks; and he walkedsideways like this; and he was covered with strongarmour upon his back."And the Eldest Magician said, *How wise are littlechildren who speak truth! Now I know where Pau Ammawent. Give me the paddle!"-"The Crab That Played with the Sea,"Rudyard Kipling

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.