There are no pterodactyls in Ramirez’s front yard, but there are a mother dolphin, her baby, and two sheep. There’s a Don Quixote on his horse, aiming his lance at a windmill. There’s a space alien emerging from a flying saucer and an abstract baseball player completing his swing-all sculpted from sheet metal that Ramirez salvaged from auto junkyards.

Question

There are no pterodactyls in Ramirez’s front yard, but there are a mother dolphin, her baby, and two sheep.  There’s a Don Quixote on his horse, aiming his lance at a windmill.  There’s a space alien emerging from a flying saucer and an abstract baseball player completing his swing-all sculpted from sheet metal that Ramirez salvaged from auto junkyards.

In paragraph 3, the author uses repetition and parallelism to

A. emphasize the variety of Ramirez’s work
B. support Ramirez’s statement in paragraph 4.
C. suggest that she finds Ramirez’s work boring.
D. convey a vivid description of Ramirez’s work.

I chose A, but D sounds good too.

Writeacher · Answer

If you think the description is vivid (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/vivid?s=t ), then choose D. If you think the description is there to name the different things in the yard, then choose A.