Books, to me, were powerful and transformational.
How does the word transformational contribute to the tone of the essay?

A. It emphasizes the author's indifferent tone about the effects of reading on
poverty.
B. It supports the author's reverential tone toward the power of books.
C. It reveals the author's bitter tone about his family's lack of books.
D. It reinforces the author's judgmental tone toward people who do not read
books.

B.

Explanation:

Using 'transformational' supports the author's view of books as being powerful.

C

As someone who grew up in poverty, the author understands its challenges.

Explanation:

faulty parallelism is a grammar construction where there is no balance in the parts of a sentence they have a similar meaning but the grammar structure is not equivalent.

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

jefferson wrote the declaration of independence, and he was the nation's third president.

the problem with the first version is that the sentence:

"jefferson was both the writer of the declaration of independence"

presents jefferson as both a subject and an agent for the verb "write" because if he was "the writer" then the declaration of independence was written by him, besides that fact, the sentence presents a dependent clause.

while the second sentence:

he was the nation's third president.

presents 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 both sentences:

jefferson wrote the declaration of independence, and he was the nation third president.