Question

Which sentence in the passage most clearly uses parallelism?

(1) The sun was not the farmers' friend today. (2) It came
to oppress, to punish, to scorch. (3) Each time the tillers of
the soil looked up, the sun glared back. (4) It invited them
into a staring contest it knew it would win, and the farmers
that day could never forget the invitation was there.
A. 2
O O
B. 4
O
C. 3
O D. 1

Answer 1

The correct answer is 2. It came to oppress, to punish, to scorch.

Step-by-step explanation

Parallelism is a literary figure that consists of the repetition of the same structure several times in the same sentence, making small changes to it. According to the above, the sentence of the passage that uses parallelism is 2. "It came to oppress, to punish, to scorch" because it repeats the word "to" several times and changes the verb that follows it.