When javier arrived at his first meet, his coach jogged toward him breathlessly. he alerted javier that swimmers were already lining up for his first event, the fifty-meter freestyle. the coach ushered him to the clerk of the course, signed him in, and got him seated with the other swimmers in his heat. javier tugged on his cap and nervously tapped his feet. soon the group was asked to proceed to the starting blocks. javier glanced left and right, and the starter’s signal sounded. before he knew it, he was reaching for the wall in his final stretch, with all of his competitors behind him. with relief, he confirmed that his time was the fastest.

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.

What was noras point of view on what her parents were doing in keeping freedom in the family?

What can be inferred from the following sentence in the passage? then he asked me my name. scarcely had i uttered it when he made a gesture of astonishment. a) the sentence implies that the attendant knows the colonel. b) the sentence implies that the colonel is giving up on life. c) the sentence implies that the attendant is going to get fired. d) the sentence implies that the colonel recognizes the attendant's name.