Read the following passage:
i thought i could outrun my grief, but looking back now, 1
see it had followed me everywhere. it was there in boston.
it was there in amarillo and in seattle. it was even here in
charlotte. i carried it with me like an overstuffed backpack.
how does the author's use of parallelism most clearly support the central
idea?
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a. it illustrates how the grief is like a backpack because the speaker
carried it with him everywhere.
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b. it calls attention to the similarities between grief and a backpack
because it was so overstuffed.
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c. it makes readers consider how grief affected the speaker in each
town.
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d. it emphasizes the number of places the speaker's grief followed
him.