Explain why each excerpt is an example of parallelism. 1. Tick-tock, seven o’clock, time to get up, time to get up, seven o’clock!

2. …eight pieces of perfectly browned toast, eight eggs sunnyside up, sixteen slices of bacon, two coffees, and two cool glasses of milk.

3. Read this excerpt from “There Will Come Soft Rains.” Rewrite the excerpt on the lines, adding parallelism in your own words.
…other choruses, oblivious, could be heard announcing the time,

playing music, cutting the lawn by remote-control mower, or setting

an umbrella frantically out and in the slamming and opening front

door, a thousand things happening…