Question

Read the excerpt below and answer the question.

Wheels and manhole covers, and grates and wrenches and gaggers and rods and gears, and discs and platens and gates, and chucks and clutches and grills, and spools and bobbins, locks and keys, pinions and racks and gaffles, and meat-hooks and ball-joints and shuttles and flycocks and gaffers, and dividers and rasps, and gyroscopes, graters, and gimbals, grab-hooks, and a thousand parts too small or two complex or too divorced from their origin or context or too specialized and thus identifiable only by their creator, cluttered the length and breadth of the walls of his house ...

In this excerpt from “'Agua Viva,' A Sculpture by Alfred Gonzalez,” the author uses parallel structure to _____. Select all that apply.

jumble the words together in the description
convey the main character’s chaotic mental state
compare and contrast the different items in the house
list the character’s possessions in order of importance

Answer 1

jumble the words together in the description

convey the main character’s chaotic mental state

Answer 2

jumble the words together in the description

convey the main character’s chaotic mental state

Step-by-step explanation:

This is a way that the writer shows us a complex connection of the many, many pieces around that make a living, complicated whole that we are not supposed to understand, but perceive as confusing and beyond our grasp. This is also a way to show the mind of the character: "[...]and a thousand parts too small or two complex or too divorced from their origin or context or too specialized and thus identifiable only by their creator"