Sunday, May 8, 2011

Parallelism

The Technical Stuff:
Parallelism is recurrent syntactical similarity. Several parts of a sentence or several sentences are expressed similarly to show that the ideas in the parts or sentences are equal in importance.

Example: 
"Our transportation crisis will be solved by a bigger plane or a wider road, 
mental illness with a pill, 
poverty with a law, 
slums with a bulldozer, 
urban conflict with a gas, 
racism with a goodwill gesture."
(Philip Slater, The Pursuit of Loneliness)

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