The story of Tarzan succeeds for you only if YOU're willing to accept the possibility of a human baby being raised by apes. If you can allow yourself that little flight of fancy, you'll probably enjoy the movie Greystoke. It takes the old Tarzan story and entices the viewer into its fantasy by presenting YOU with beautiful images and haunting sounds of the jungle. Perhaps in some symbolic way it has. This two-part exercise is an opportunity for you to test your understanding of what you have just learned in Chapter 15.
Parallel elements clarify the relationships between ideas.
The following paragraphs are taken from a speech given by President Eisenhower in 1953. Click here to get a stand-alone copy of this passage which you can easily print. Read Eisenhower's words aloud, noting his use of parallelism to highlight the organization of ideas. Click on the computer's answer to compare your answers. President Eisenhower went on with more parallelism in his next paragraph, sometimes putting sets of parallel elements inside larger parallel elements.