AP English Language: Why Is The Author Using Parallelism?
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The author makes use of parallelism in lines 33–37 ("The blues…Civil Rights Movement") primarily in order to
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have failed to radical reconstruction of violence and oppression the
jim crow south of the desperation of the sharecropping system
and of the struggles of the civil rights movement Well
parallelism You know when an author repeats the same syntax
or word order creates continuity it's like framing every picture
on a wall in the same college frame Here the
author's talking about the story of the blues which encompasses
a huge range of responses like frustration oppression desperation struggle
and time periods like radical reconstruction in jim crow south
and the sharecropping era and civil rights movement Well by
using parallelism the author shows how the blues was present
but changing throughout this period Well because the story of
the blues changes during each time period the author mentions
like and either it isn't showing history repeating itself So
get rid of a two more over the information itself
a straightforward get rid of b and because this passage
is factual and not something more lyrical like a poem
while the rhythm is not the highest priority So get
rid of seek the answer here it's deep I suggest 00:01:24.824 --> [endTime] the diversity and longevity of the genre that's it