Which of these phrases uses parallelism to create a sad tone?
A) I called for Sadie. Sadie didn't answer. I waited up for Sadie. Sadie didn't come home.
B) Sadie did not come home. I spent the night much like a watchman, returning to the window several times.
C) Sadie. My sweet dog. What happened? Where are you?
D) Every night Sadie comes to my room. She jumps on my bed. She licks my face.

Question

Which of these phrases uses parallelism to create a sad tone? 
A) I called for Sadie. Sadie didn't answer. I waited up for Sadie. Sadie didn't come home. 
B) Sadie did not come home. I spent the night much like a watchman, returning to the window several times. 
C) Sadie. My sweet dog. What happened? Where are you? 
D) Every night Sadie comes to my room. She jumps on my bed. She licks my face.

anonymous · Answer

Which do you think?

butterflydreamer · Answer

In grammar, parallelism, also known as parallel structure or parallel construction, is a balance within one or more sentences of similar phrases or clauses that have the same grammatical structure.
Therefore it would be A

butterflydreamer · Answer

Can you see that parallelism generally means similar phrases or clauses with the same grammatical structure so in the first option (A) It says "I ..... Sadie
 and also "Sadie didn't..." twice? That's why A would be the best option :)
Because the sentence structures are very similar and they show that each sentence is of equivalent importance! Hope this helped.