Read the post from bryn’s breakfast blog. i love cereal in the morning, but here’s the problem: most cereal is sugary and not very nutritious, and the cereal that’s good for me is not usually that tasty. so, i have a solution i’m going to share with you. follow these quick and easy steps, and you can enjoy a nutritious and wonderful breakfast forever. i use the healthy cereal that my mom always buys. first, i add fruit—strawberries, banana, whatever we have in the house. then, i add nuts. my favorite is walnuts, so i grab three or four and crush them up. my finishing touch is a pinch of cinnamon. it’s my secret ingredient. and then i add skim milk—and voila! which best describes the purpose of this blog post? to advertise to entertain to instruct to persuade

When i was young enough to still spend a long time buttoning my shoes in the morning, i'd listen toward the hall: daddy upstairs was shaving, in the bathroom, and mother downstairs was frying the bacon. they would begin whispering back and forth to each other up and down the stairwell. my father would whistle his phrase, my mother would try to whistle, then hum hers backi drew my buttonhook in and out and listened to it -know it was "the merry widow." the difference was, their song almost floated with laughter. how different from the record, which growled from the beginning, as if the victrola were only slowly being wound up. they kept it running between them, up and down the stairs where i was now just about ready to run clattering down and show them my shoes. what is the effect of the parallelism used in the above excerpt? it establishes the rhythm of a duet to echo the song. it expresses the same ideas. it mirrors opposite ideas. it is a paradox.