Read the excerpt from "An Irish Airman Foresees His Death." Those that I fight I do not hate Those that I guard I do not love; Which statement best describes the effect of the parallelism in this excerpt?

The two lines use the same structure to compare the people the pilot fights with the people he protects. He says he neither hates his enemies nor loves those he guards, emphasizing his lack of strong feeling toward either group. This makes C, the statement about his limited emotion for enemies and countrymen, the best choice.

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