Christian wrote his version of a myth about daphne and apollo for his english assignment. read this excerpt from paragraph 2 of christian’s draft of his introduction and answer the question. he had slain a horrifying monster called the python, a serpent whose poisonous body had coveredan entire hillside. it required a thousand arrows to kill it. what is the best way to combine the underlined portion to achieve parallel structure? a serpent whose poisonous body had covered an entire hillside and had required a thousand arrows to kill it. a serpent whose poisonous body had covered anentire hillside, and apollo had required a thousand arrows to kill it. a serpent whose poisonous body had covered an entire hillside and requiring a thousand arrows to kill it. a serpent whose poisonous body had covered an entire hillside and who had required a thousand arrows to kill it.

The answer is the first option: a serpent whose poisonous body had covered an entire hillside and had required a thousand arrows to kill it.

For a structure to present parallelism, it has to repeat a certain grammatical form inside the sentence. Option a is the only option that presents such repetition. It is talking about the serpent's poisonous body and the two grammatical structures that come after that have the same structure: Past Perfect Tense.

It is as if two sentences were combined into one to avoid repetition:

A serpent whose poisonous body had covered an entire hillside.

                                                  +

A serpent whose poisonous body had required a thousand arrows to kill it.

                                                 =

A serpent whose poisonous body had covered an entire hillside and had required a thousand arrows to kill it.

Note: The third option (or option c) is incorrect because it says "requiring", not "required".

the underlined phrase is an example of : understatment

i think the correct answer would be adjustments in life roles.  this causes for one to adjust or change totally his/her career or lifestyle since the present is not beneficial to the life role he is at. for instance, you became a mother you would of course stop going to malls and enjoying life outside. you would be staying at home taking care of your child.