A would be the most likely answer to this question.
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d. "not morose, misanthropic, and revengeful, but cheerful, hopeful, and forgiving."
Parallel structure is using the same grammatical structure for elements in a list. This helps with the flow of the sentence and ideas, as well as aids the reader in seeing how the items are similar or different. In this case, the items in both lists are written as adjectives. This allows the reader to see the similarities among the that are grouped together and how the contrast to each other across the conjunction "but". The phrase "two hundred and fifty years" is not part of parallel structure in this sentence.
I think it's D because you don't have to read every word in the text. you just have to understand what you know
The answer to this question will be C