Question

Standards and Skills Questions (Without Text Selections)
Identify the choice that best answers the question.

Read the following sentence.

We must protect the environment to remedy the abuses of the past, to defend against the
dangers of the present, and to provide for the people of the future.

This sentence is most clearly an illustration of
Choose...

Answer 1

Parallelism (a parallel structure — specifically a tricolon). The sentence uses three matching infinitive phrases ("to remedy..., to defend..., and to provide...") for balance and emphasis.