Select the correct answer.
In this passage from Mark Twain's "A Simplified Alphabet," which detail provides the reader with clues to the essay's topic?
"It seemed to me to merely propose to substitute one inadequacy for another, a sort of patching and plugging poor old dental relics with
cement and gold and porcelain paste; what was really needed was a new set of teeth. That is to say, a new ALPHABET."
OA. dental relics
OB. porcelain paste
OC. a new alphabet
OD. a new set of teeth

When i was young enough to still spend a long time buttoning my shoes in the morning, i'd listen toward the hall: daddy upstairs was shaving, in the bathroom, and mother downstairs was frying the bacon. they would begin whispering back and forth to each other up and down the stairwell. my father would whistle his phrase, my mother would try to whistle, then hum hers backi drew my buttonhook in and out and listened to it -know it was "the merry widow." the difference was, their song almost floated with laughter. how different from the record, which growled from the beginning, as if the victrola were only slowly being wound up. they kept it running between them, up and down the stairs where i was now just about ready to run clattering down and show them my shoes. what is the effect of the parallelism used in the above excerpt? it establishes the rhythm of a duet to echo the song. it expresses the same ideas. it mirrors opposite ideas. it is a paradox.

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