Read this passage: a novel focuses on the lives of emily and her great-great-grandmother mirna. the story switches back and forthbetween the story of mirna, a farmer's wife in virginia whomust run the farm by herself when her husband goes off tofight in the civil war, and emily, a young newlywed whotakes a job at a factory to support herself while herhusband is away fighting in world war ii. which literary device is used in the novel? oa. contrivanceb. foreshadowingc. parallel plotsd. anticlimax

Read the excerpt from suffragists' "great demand" banner. in 1917, more than one thousand women stood before the white house in a cold, pouring rain, holding silent vigil to demand a constitutional amendment to extend the vote to them. their quest to be enfranchised by law was known at the time as the great demand. the smithsonian's great demand banner, as it came to be called, declares in bold words and style the determination of the women who made and carried it. their campaign on behalf of women sought to move america one step closer to fulfilling the nation's long-deferred promise of equality under the law. which statements about this excerpt are correct? check all that apply.