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    what is parallelism in the sense of a paragraph?

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    Parallelism is when the same idea is conveyed with different words in the same sentence.


    Some examples of parallelisms


    "He's quite a man with the girls. They say he's closed the eyes of many a man and opened the eyes of many a woman."
    (telegraph operator to Penny Worth in Angel and the Badman, 1947)


    "They are laughing at me, not with me."
    (Bart Simpson, The Simpsons)


    Donkey: I don't get it, Shrek. Why didn't you just pull some of that ogre stuff on him? You know, throttle him, lay siege to his fortress, grind his bones to make your bread? You know, the whole ogre trip.
    Shrek: Oh, I know. Maybe I could have decapitated an entire village, put their heads on a pike, gotten a knife, cut open their spleens and drunk their fluids. Does that sound good to you?
    Donkey: Uh, no, not really, no.
    (Shrek, 2001)



    • "The sandwiches were stuffed with alfalfa sprouts and grated cheese, impaled with toothpicks with red, blue, and green cellophane ribbons on them, and there were two large, perfect, crunchy garlic pickles on the side. And a couple of cartons of strawberry Yoplait, two tubs of fruit salad with fresh whipped cream and little wooden spoons, and two large cardboard cups of aromatic, steaming, fresh black coffee."
      (Thom Jones, Cold Snap, 1995)

    • More on the web on faulty parallelism as well. I am glad you enjoy English. Express it :).


    • Parallelism


      web.cn.edu/kwheeler/gram_parallelism.html

      The red sentences are examples of "bad" or faulty parallelism. The blue sentences use parallel structure. faulty parallelism: She revels in chocolate, walking ...



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