Read the excerpt below and answer the question. from that time on, he has continued to hit me on the head with his umbrella. as far as i can tell, he has never either slept or eaten anything. his sole activity consists of hitting me. he is with me in everything i do, even in my most intimate activities. i remember that at first, the blows kept me awake all night. now i think it would be impossible for me to sleep without them. what literary genre is best illustrated by this excerpt from sorrentino’s “there’s a man in the habit of hitting me on the head with an umbrella”? magical realism historical fiction religious parable literary nonfiction

After reading this excerpt, darren makes a text-to-text connection. which example is a text-to-text connection?

Apolitical campaign showing the candidate wearing a hard hat and work shirt while touring a factory is using oa) glittering generalities. ob) transfer appeal. oc) testimonial. od) plain folks appeal.

In order really to hate white people, one has to blot so much out of the mind — and the heart — that this hatred itself becomes an exhausting and self-destructive pose. but this does not mean, on the other hand, that love comes easily: the white world is too powerful, too complacent, too ready with gratuitous humiliation, and, above all, too ignorant and too innocent for that. which sentence best explains how the use of parallelism in the excerpt supports baldwin's purpose? a. it proves baldwin's central idea by highlighting the obvious. b. it emphasizes the problems that prevent one from loving the white world. c. it explains why the white world is unable to replace hate with love. d. it enumerates the many ways of dealing with the white world.