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  2. Parallelism (grammar) - Wikipedia

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    In grammar, parallelism, also known as parallel structure or parallel construction, is a balance within one or more sentences of similar phrases or clauses that have the same grammatical structure. [1] The application of parallelism affects readability and may make texts easier to process. [2]

  3. Parallel syntax - Wikipedia

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    In rhetoric, parallel syntax (also known as parallel construction, parallel structure, and parallelism) is a rhetorical device that consists of repetition among adjacent sentences or clauses. The repeated sentences or clauses provide emphasis to a central theme or idea the author is trying to convey. [ 1 ]

  4. Balanced sentence - Wikipedia

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    1 Examples. 2 References. ... Download as PDF; Printable version; ... A balanced sentence is a sentence that employs parallel structures of approximately the same ...

  5. Parallelism (rhetoric) - Wikipedia

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    Parallel structures in short passages such as proverbs help direct the listener or reader to compare the parallel elements and thus more easily deduce the point. Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. (English proverb) Wounds caused by knives will heal, wounds caused by words will not ...

  6. Parallel structures - Wikipedia

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    Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; Appearance. move to sidebar hide. Parallel structures may refer to: 38th parallel structures, a ...

  7. Antithesis - Wikipedia

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    The term "antithesis" in rhetoric goes back to the 4th century BC, for example Aristotle, Rhetoric, 1410a, in which he gives a series of examples. An antithesis can be a simple statement contrasting two things, using a parallel structure: I defended the Republic as a young man; I shall not desert her now that I am old. (Cicero, 2nd Philippic, 2 ...

  8. Parallel harmony - Wikipedia

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    In the Schuman example (Three Score Set for Piano), the inversions of the chords suggest a bichordal effect. [3] In the example on the top right, we see a series of quartal chords in parallel motion, in which the intervallic relationship between each consecutive chord member, in this case a minor second, is consistent.

  9. Embarrassingly parallel - Wikipedia

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    A trivial example involves serving static data. It would take very little effort to have many processing units produce the same set of bits. Indeed, the famous Hello World problem could easily be parallelized with few programming considerations or computational costs. Some examples of embarrassingly parallel problems include: Monte Carlo ...