Thursday, December 1, 2011

Literary Term Parallelism

Parallelism: The quality or condition of being parallel; a parallel relationship.  Likeness, correspondence, or similarity in aspect, course, or tendency.
-Items in a series, list, or compound must be in parallel form

Example

The girl is looking in the mirror and brushing her hair.
-the verbs are parrallel, they endings of the verb must be the same. If the verbs correspond then it is a parallelism. If the word had changed from brushing to brushes. It is not parrallel. Whatever you are comparing must be parallel if it is parallelism.




The video above, gives more example of parrallelism and even gives wrong examples. It explains parallelism a bit as well.



The video above gives even more examples. Except unlike the video above gives a wider range of different comparison. Showing whatever you compare must be parallel.

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