Reason steinbeck uses parallelism in the grapes of wrath

To the person who said "why are boys always in their lying nature (school project)" lol but nah you jus mess with the wrong dudes

Read the sentence from the war of the worlds. i turned, and as i did so the screw must have come out, for the lid of the cylinder fell upon the gravel with a ringing concussion. which option is the accurate synonym of the word concussion as it is used in the sentence? explosion disruption crash interruption

From part ii of the novel, pick one paragraph in which the author uses semicolons. read over your chosen paragraph and in 200 words, discuss the effect of using semicolons in order to create longer phrases.