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Which sentence avoids a parallelism​ problem?
a. the declaration of independence was​ bold, outrageous, and it provoked the anger of the king.
b. the declaration of independence was​ bold, it outraged the​ king, and provocative.
c. the declaration of independence was​ bold, outrageous, and provocative.
d. the declaration of independence was​ bold, outrageous in​ attitude, and it provoked the anger of the king?

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c. the declaration of independence was​ bold, outrageous, and provocative.

Parallelism is a grammatical feature of language, where words and phrases linked with conjunction have the same structure and form. 

An example of parallelism in a sentence is: "He carried a hat, umbrella and beach towel". In this sentence the linked words (hat, umbrella and beach towel are all nouns). 

However, if the above sentence is phrased as: "He carried a hat, umbrella, and he also took along a beach towel", it has faulty parallelism as the linked words (hat, umbrella and beach towel) do not have the same form.