What is/are the effect(s) of the parallelism used in the above excerpt? Select all that apply.
The survivors wanted to communicate everything to the living: the victim’s solitude and sorrow, the tears of mothers driven to madness, the prayers of the doomed beneath a fiery sky. They needed to tell of the child who, in hiding with his mother, asked softly, very softly, "Can I cry now?" They needed to tell of the sick beggar who, in a sealed cattle-car, began to sing as an offering to his companions. And of the little girl who, hugging her grandmother, whispered: "Don’t be afraid, don’t be sorry to die … I’m not."
It uses ethos to establish credibility.
It emphasizes the confession, the telling of what survivors saw.
It gives his words the rhythm of a poem or sermon.
It emphasizes the emotion in the words.

Parallelism, or the use of a parallel structure, grammatically speaking, means that you use clauses, that complement each other, or increase information about one another, by using the same grammatical structure in all of them. In this particular excerpt, the parallelism, which starts after a colon, not only expands on the information given in the clause before, but it also increases the sentimentality towards what the survivors have witnessed, and it touches a reader´s emotions and makes the reader realize how deep the feelings in the speaker were.