Explain why each excerpt is an example of parallelism. 1.
Tick-tock, seven o’clock, time to get up, time to get up, seven o’clock!

2.
…eight pieces of perfectly browned toast, eight eggs sunnyside up, sixteen slices of bacon, two coffees, and two cool glasses of milk.

3.
Read this excerpt from “There Will Come Soft Rains.” Rewrite the excerpt on the lines, adding parallelism in your own words.
…other choruses, oblivious, could be heard announcing the time,

playing music, cutting the lawn by remote-control mower, or setting

an umbrella frantically out and in the slamming and opening front

door, a thousand things happening…

Parallelism is the repetition of the same form of words or verbs in a sentence is explained as parallelism.

All the sentences given in the questions give the example of parallelism. It contains the repetition of the same form of words.

In the first sentence qualities of a morning is mentioned. In second sentence all the food items are written.

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hmm, sadly there is no dialogue. there is no place in the story where he is talking to anyone. it's more of just describing what he eats and where he sleeps. you have to become anne frank, give details of where you are, what other folks look like, how the environment is. have a little bit of dialogue tell of what people are specifically saying. anne frank talked about her entire household including the people, the objects, the lighting, the food they ate, and even the smell in the air. there has to be more to your diary entries, the whole story in its current state is only about peter van daan, the food, the sounds, and where he sleeps. also he seems to be writing only once a year yet more than that happened from day to day. for a friend, i can you write it out, if you want.

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