What is one reason steinbeck uses parallelism in the grapes of wrath?
a. to relax the reader with repetition
b. to detract from disturbing images
c. to soften the intensity of controversial subject matter
d. to highlight the contrast between opposing ideas

What does water came out from a rock mean in this poem and why is it compared to the radio waltz? time was away and somewhere else. the waiter did not come, the clock forgot them and the radio waltz came out like water from a rock: time was away and somewhere else.

Read this excerpt from tim o’brien‘s “ambush” “i had already pulled the pin on a grenade. i had come to a crouch” which literary device is most clearly shown in this excerpt?

Match the audience to the description of each speech