3. The extreme of his stock portfolio translated into a display of emotion: on lucrative days he felt ecstatic; on losing days he acted despondent.

Match the audience to the description of each speech

Once you have finished revising your peer’s essay, continue to demonstrate your understanding of grammar and punctuation by writing an essay containing all of the grammatical concepts outlined above. your essay should be short, just 250 words, and it can be written on any subject. it should contain an example of parallel structure, an example of every type of phrase and clause outlined in this lesson, an example of two independent clauses connected by a semicolon, and an example of a colon. if you are struggling to come up with an idea for an essay, consider writing it about the themes present in one of the texts you have read already.

Which of these rhetorical devices is most clearly used in the underlined portion of the text?