Read the excerpt from Ronald Reagan's "Tear Down This Wall" speech.Where four decades ago there was rubble, today in West Berlin there is the greatest industrial output of any city in Germany—busy office blocks, fine homes and apartments, proud avenues, and the spreading lawns of park land. Where a city's culture seemed to have been destroyed, today there are two great universities, orchestras and an opera, countless theaters, and museums. Where there was want, today there's abundance.
Answer
A
Reagan uses repetition to focus attention on history.
B
Reagan uses hasty generalizations to encourage hope.
C
Reagan uses parallelism to compare the past to the present.
D
Reagan uses hyperbole to emphasize changes that have taken place.
Explanation
Reagan repeats the same sentence structure—“Where” something was lacking in the past, “today” something flourishing exists. This parallelism highlights the contrast between West Berlin’s earlier hardship and its later prosperity. The best choice is “Reagan uses parallelism to compare the past to the present.”
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