Read this excerpt from The Circuit and answer the question. As the last days of August disappeared, so did the number of braceros. Sunday, only one--the best picker--came to work. I liked him. Sometimes we talked during our half-hour lunch break. That is how I found out he was from Jalisco, the same state in Mexico my family was from. That Sunday was the last time I saw him.

Why, most likely, does the author include this excerpt at the beginning of the story?

to foreshadow what happens at the end of the story
to minimize the surprise readers would otherwise feel to learn the family must move
to create tension about what happened to the narrator's friend
to serve as a flashback to a time when the narrator was in a better place

the price of our current war is high; it costs money and it costs lives.

but it does not cost our pride. it does not cost the guilt that would arise from knowing that we did nothing to intervene while our neighboring nations fell to despotic leaders.

it does not cost the terror of knowing that our allies are unstable. it does not cost the fear that we, too, will be next to fall.

which sentence most accurately explains why the speaker's use of the parallel structure is effective in this passage?

a. it underscores that disagreement will not be tolerated and will be dealt with swiftly.

b. it makes the speaker seem like a decisive and capable leader.

c. it emphasizes reasons to fight and inspires listeners to aid the war effort.

d. it establishes the speaker's credibility by acknowledging the difficulties of war.

excerpt from "the   daffodils" by william wordsworth

are there any choices to this question

this map shows the geographic distribution of different tidal cycles along some earth's coastlines. areas experiencing tides are marked in yellow and experience one low tide and one high tide each day.