In “harrison bergeron,” harrison and the ballerina are forced to wear the most impediments because, ironically, (points : 5). a) harrison is more brilliant than the ballerina. b) the ballerina is more athletic than harrison. c) both want to dance better than anyone else. d) both are more brilliant and athletic than anyone else.

D) Both are more brilliant and athletic than anyone else.

Explanation:

Harrison Bergeron is a short story written by Kurt Vonnegut where the government wants to create a society where everyone is equal and so the government decides to find young people who are beautiful, athletic and intelligent to create that society.

Among these young men, Harrison Bergeron is the most handsome, athletic, strong and brave young man; and a girl named Ballerina is the most beautiful, graceful and talented of all the dancers. Both young people want to live unimpeded without the need to obey the laws of government. For this reason they are punished that things do not prohibit them from using their superior skills, ie as both are the most beautiful, strong, intelligent and athletic, they are required to wear huge headphones and glasses to leave them with the bad vision and tremendous headaches, make-up that transfigure their beauties, and so many weights to compensate for their prodigious strength that makes them barely able to move.

faulty parallelism is a grammar construction where there is no balance in the parts of a sentence they have a similar meaning but the grammar structure is not equivalent.

the correct version of this faulty parallelism in the sentence is:

jefferson wrote the declaration of independence, and he was the nation's third president.

the problem with the first version is that the sentence:

"jefferson was both the writer of the declaration of independence"

presents jefferson as both a subject and an agent for the verb "write" because if he was "the writer" then the declaration of independence was written by him, besides that fact, the sentence presents a dependent clause.

while the second sentence:

he was the nation's third president.

presents a basic subject+verb+object structure

so, to give a proper balance to the structure, or better said, to give a parallel structure, we must write a basic s+v+o structure in both sentences:

jefferson wrote the declaration of independence, and he was the nation third president.

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