● Exercise 5 ●

1. I read books late into the night, until I could barely keep my eyes open. I read books at recess, then during lunch and in the few minutes left after I had finished my classroom assignments. I read books in the car when my family traveled to powwows or basketball games. In shopping malls, I ran to the bookstores and read bits and pieces of as many books as I could. I read the books my father brought home from the pawnshops and secondhand. I read the books I borrowed from the library. I read the backs of cereal boxes. I read the newspaper. I read the bulletins posted on the walls of the school, the clinic, the tribal offices, the post office. I read junk mail. I read auto-repair manuals. I read magazines. I read anything that had words and paragraphs. I read with equal parts joy and desperation. —Sherman Alexie

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   Exercise 5: Each of the following sentences is an example of parallelism. Identify the type of parallelism, explain its effect, and then model a sentence of your own on the example. - I read books late into the night, until I could barely keep my eyes open. I read books at recess, then during lunch and in the few minutes left after I had finished my classroom assignments. I read books in the car when my family traveled to powwows or basketball games. In shopping malls, I ran to the bookstores and read bits and pieces of as many books as I could. I read the books my father brought home from the pawnshops and secondhand. I read the books I borrowed from the library. I read the backs of cereal boxes. I read the newspaper. I read the bulletins posted on the walls of the school, the clinic, the tribal offices, the post office. I read junk mail. I read auto-repair manuals. I read magazines. I read anything that had words and paragraphs. I read with equal parts joy and desperation. —Sherman Alexie
2. I will have all these little Suzettes in case you never have any babies, which looks more and more like it is going to happen.

   My mother who had me when she was thirty-three—l’âge du Christ—at the age that Christ died on the cross.

   That’s a blessing, believe you me, even if American doctors say by that time you can make retarded babies.

   My mother, who sews lace collars on my company soft ball T-shirts when she does my laundry.

   Why, you can’t you look like a lady playing soft ball?

   My mother, who never went to any of my Parent-Teacher Association meetings when I was in school.—Edwidge Danticat

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   Exercise 5: Each of the following sentences is an example of parallelism. Identify the type of parallelism, explain its effect, and then model a sentence of your own on the example. - I will have all these little Suzettes in case you never have any babies, which looks more and more like it is going to happen.My mother who had me when she was thirty-three—l’âge du Christ—at the age that Christ died on the cross.That’s a blessing, believe you me, even if American doctors say by that time you can make retarded babies.My mother, who sews lace collars on my company soft ball T-shirts when she does my laundry.Why, you can’t you look like a lady playing soft ball?My mother, who never went to any of my Parent-Teacher Association meetings when I was in school.—Edwidge Danticat
3. It was only one bomb, small enough to fit in the trunk of a car. A band of fanatics stole it from the Israelis, smuggled it into the United States, and exploded it in a football stadium to kill tens of thousands. —Spencer R. Weart

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   Exercise 5: Each of the following sentences is an example of parallelism. Identify the type of parallelism, explain its effect, and then model a sentence of your own on the example. - It was only one bomb, small enough to fit in the trunk of a car. A band of fanatics stole it from the Israelis, smuggled it into the United States, and exploded it in a football stadium to kill tens of thousands. —Spencer R. Weart
4. But cars didn’t shape our existence; cars let us escape with our lives. We’re way the heck out here in Valley Bottom Heights and Trout Antler Estates because we were at war with the cities. We fought rotten public schools, idiot municipal bureaucracies, corrupt political machines, rampant criminality and the pointy-headed busybodies. Cars gave us our dragoons and hussars, lent us speed and mobility, let us scout the terrain and probe the enemy’s lines. And thanks to our cars, when we lost the cities we weren’t forced to surrender, we were able to retreat. —P. J. O’Rourke

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   Exercise 5: Each of the following sentences is an example of parallelism. Identify the type of parallelism, explain its effect, and then model a sentence of your own on the example. - But cars didn’t shape our existence; cars let us escape with our lives. We’re way the heck out here in Valley Bottom Heights and Trout Antler Estates because we were at war with the cities. We fought rotten public schools, idiot municipal bureaucracies, corrupt political machines, rampant criminality and the pointy-headed busybodies. Cars gave us our dragoons and hussars, lent us speed and mobility, let us scout the terrain and probe the enemy’s lines. And thanks to our cars, when we lost the cities we weren’t forced to surrender, we were able to retreat. —P. J. O’Rourke
5. Certain blood was being shed for uncertain reasons. —Tim O’Brien

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   Exercise 5: Each of the following sentences is an example of parallelism. Identify the type of parallelism, explain its effect, and then model a sentence of your own on the example. - Certain blood was being shed for uncertain reasons. —Tim O’Brien