Sage

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27 July, 08:31

What is/are the effect (s) of the parallelism used in the above excerpt? Select all that apply.

The survivors wanted to communicate everything to the living: the victim's solitude and sorrow, the tears of mothers driven to madness, the prayers of the doomed beneath a fiery sky. They needed to tell of the child who, in hiding with his mother, asked softly, very softly, "Can I cry now?" They needed to tell of the sick beggar who, in a sealed cattle-car, began to sing as an offering to his companions. And of the little girl who, hugging her grandmother, whispered: "Don't be afraid, don't be sorry to die ... I'm not."

It uses ethos to establish credibility.

It emphasizes the confession, the telling of what survivors saw.

It gives his words the rhythm of a poem or sermon.

It emphasizes the emotion in the words.