Select two pieces of evidence, one from each of the stories, that show how the speaker in “The Terror” and Laura in “The Fan Club” have differing perspectives about bullying. Question 16 options: “Smothered laughter behind her. Were they all looking at her?” (“The Fan Club”) “When the brothers appeared, I couldn’t think for nothing. I would drop whatever I was doing and get away…” (“The Terror”) “I tried to be agreeable, to make friends, but that didn’t work so hot; mostly I just slouched in my seat, hating my clothes and my glasses and my face.” (“The Terror”) “She thought of their identical brown loafers, their plastic purses, their hostile stores as they passed her in the corridors. She didn’t care. They were clods.” “How many of them cared about truth? Laura looked past the rows of blank, empty faces, past the bored stares and cynical grins.”

Select two pieces of evidence, one from each of the stories, that show how the speaker in “The Terror” and Laura in “The Fan Club” have differing perspectives about bullying. Question 16 options:

“She thought of their identical brown loafers, their plastic purses, their hostile stores as they passed her in the corridors. She didn’t care. They were clods.”

“When the brothers appeared, I couldn’t think for nothing. I would drop whatever I was doing and get away…” (“The Terror”)

“I tried to be agreeable, to make friends, but that didn’t work so hot; mostly I just slouched in my seat, hating my clothes and my glasses and my face.” (“The Terror”)

“Smothered laughter behind her. Were they all looking at her?” (“The Fan Club”)

“How many of them cared about truth? Laura looked past the rows of blank, empty faces, past the bored stares and cynical grins.”

Explanation:

faulty parallelism is a construction in which two or more parts of a sentence are equivalent in meaning but not grammatically similar in form.

the correct version of this faulty parallelism in the sentence is:

the hikers knew that the hike was six miles, that it usually required the entire day, and it would not be wise to start after 10: 00 a.m.

the problem is the last sentence, the first two have a basic subject+verb+object structure.

so, to give a proper balance to the structure, or better said, to give a parallel structure, we must write a basic s+v+o structure in all three sentences:

the hikers knew that the hike was six miles, that it usually required the entire day, and it would not be wise to start after 10: 00 a.m.

a. both connotative and denotative.