Question 3 (1 point) REVIEW: Parallel structure (also called parallelism) is the repetition of a chosen grammatical form within a sentence. This creates a pattern that readers can easily follow. Parallelism may involve one sentence with repeating phrase structures OR several similarly structured sentences.

DIRECTIONS: READ EACH SENTENCE/SENTENCE GROUP AND IDENTIFY EXAMPLES OF PARALLELISM.

EXAMPLE from "I Have a Dream" by Martin Luther King, Jr.: One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination.

a
"still sadly crippled" and "manacles of segregation"
b
There is no parallelism in this sentence.
c
"one hundred years later" and "the life of the Negro"
d
"manacles of segregation" and "chains of discrimination"

Read the excerpt from loom and spindle. but in a short time the prejudice against factory labor wore away, and the lowell mills became filled with blooming and energetic new england women. . they soon began to associate with those who formed the community in which they had come to live, and were invited to their houses. they went to the same church, and sometimes married into some of the best families. or if they returned to their secluded homes again, instead of being looked down upon as "factory girls" by the squire's or the lawyer's family, they were more often welcomed as coming from the metropolis, bringing new fashions, new books, and new ideas with them. what inference can be drawn about the time period of the excerpt? a. the changing workforce transformed society’s rules. b. factories improved local economies with new products. c. women with factory experience found other jobs easily. d. married women preferred factory work to homemaking.