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Parallelism means to give two or more parts of the sentences a similar form so as to give the whole a definite pattern.

Parallelisms of various sorts are the chief rhetoric
Rhetoric

Rhetoric is the art of using language as a means to persuade. Along with logic and dialectic, rhetoric is one of the three ancient arts of discourse....
al device of Biblical poetry
Biblical poetry

This article is concerned with Biblical poetry, specifically poetry in the Tanakh.The question whether the literature of the ancient Hebrews includes portions that may be called poetry is answered by the ancient Hebrews themselves....
 in Hebrew
Hebrew language

Hebrew is a Semitic languages of the Afro-Asiatic languages. Modern Hebrew is spoken by more than seven million people in Israel and Classical Hebrew is used for prayer or study in Jews communities around the world....
. In fact, Robert Lowth
Robert Lowth

Robert Lowth Fellow of the Royal Society was a Bishop of the Church of England, a professor of poetry at university of Oxford and the author of one of the most influential textbooks of English language grammar....
 coined the term "parallelismus membrorum (parallelism of members, i.e. poetic lines) in his 1788 book, Lectures on the Sacred Poetry of the Hebrew Nation. Roman Jakobson
Roman Jakobson

Roman Osipovich Jakobson, , was a Russian linguist and literary critic, associated with the Russian Formalism school. He became one of the most influential linguistics of the 20th century by pioneering the development of structuralism of language, poetry, and art....
 pioneered the secular study of parallelism in poetic-linguistic traditions around the world, including his own Russian tradition.

In addition, Chinese poetry uses parallelism in its first form.






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Parallelism means to give two or more parts of the sentences a similar form so as to give the whole a definite pattern.

Parallelisms of various sorts are the chief rhetoric
Rhetoric

Rhetoric is the art of using language as a means to persuade. Along with logic and dialectic, rhetoric is one of the three ancient arts of discourse....
al device of Biblical poetry
Biblical poetry

This article is concerned with Biblical poetry, specifically poetry in the Tanakh.The question whether the literature of the ancient Hebrews includes portions that may be called poetry is answered by the ancient Hebrews themselves....
 in Hebrew
Hebrew language

Hebrew is a Semitic languages of the Afro-Asiatic languages. Modern Hebrew is spoken by more than seven million people in Israel and Classical Hebrew is used for prayer or study in Jews communities around the world....
. In fact, Robert Lowth
Robert Lowth

Robert Lowth Fellow of the Royal Society was a Bishop of the Church of England, a professor of poetry at university of Oxford and the author of one of the most influential textbooks of English language grammar....
 coined the term "parallelismus membrorum (parallelism of members, i.e. poetic lines) in his 1788 book, Lectures on the Sacred Poetry of the Hebrew Nation. Roman Jakobson
Roman Jakobson

Roman Osipovich Jakobson, , was a Russian linguist and literary critic, associated with the Russian Formalism school. He became one of the most influential linguistics of the 20th century by pioneering the development of structuralism of language, poetry, and art....
 pioneered the secular study of parallelism in poetic-linguistic traditions around the world, including his own Russian tradition.

In addition, Chinese poetry uses parallelism in its first form. In a parallel couplet not only must the content, the parts of speech, the mythological and historico- geographical allusions, be all separately matched and balanced, but most of the tones must also be paired reciprocally. Even tones are conjoined with inflected ones, and vice versa.

Examples

"We charge him with having broken his coronation-oath - and we are told that he kept his marriage-vow! We accuse him of having given up his people to the merciless inflictions of the most hard-hearted of prelates - and the defense is that he took his little son on his knee and kissed him. We censure him for having violated the Petition of Right - and we are informed that he was accustomed to hear prayers at six o'clock in the morning." (Macaulay
Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay

Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay, Privy Council of the United Kingdom was a nineteenth-century British poet, historian and British Whig Party politician and one of the two Member of Parliament for Edinburgh ....
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“Veni, vidi, vici (I came, I saw, I conquered).” (Julius Caesar
Julius Caesar

'Gaius Julius Caesar' , July 13, 100 BC ? March 15, 44 BC,) was a Roman Republic military and political leader. He played a critical role in the transformation of the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire....
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"The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessing; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries." (Churchill
Winston Churchill

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, Order of the Garter, Order of Merit, Order of the Companions of Honour, Territorial Decoration, Fellow of the Royal Society, Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, Queen's Privy Council for Canada was a Politics of the United Kingdom known chiefly for his leadership of the United King...
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"But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream." (Amos
Book of Amos

The Book of Amos is one of the books of the Nevi'im and of the Christian Old Testament. Amos is one of the minor prophets.Amos was the first biblical prophet whose words were recorded in a book, an older contemporary of Hosea and Isaiah....
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"No matter how strong the storm is, there will always be a next day"

See also

  • Rhetorical device
    Rhetorical device

    In rhetoric, a rhetorical device or resource of language is a technique that an author or speaker uses to evoke an emotional response in the audience ....
  • Chiasmus
    Chiasmus

    In rhetoric, chiasmus is the figure of speech in which two or more clauses are related to each other through a reversal of structures in order to make a larger point; that is, the clauses display inverted Parallelism ....