Read the excerpt below and answer the question.

in the mirror was the head and shoulders of a man who had not bathed, shaven, or shorn his hair for five or more years and who had not seen himself in that time either. (p. 80)

in the excerpt above, the author uses to give the reader information about fredo.

indirect characterization
simile
metaphor
direct characterization

D) Direct Characterization.

Explanation: In the given excerpt from "Agua Viva, a sculpture by Alfred Gonzalez" we can see the description of Fredo, when he sees in a mirror after five years. Characterization is the way the author presents a character, when the character is presented by the use of adjectives or phrases that describe it,  it is an example of direct characterization, like for example "In the mirror was the head and shoulders of a man who had not bathed..."

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.

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