DEFINITION
Parallelism basically involves careful repetition. In order to achieve balance, beauty, rhythm, and clarity, a writer can repeat words, phrases, or clauses, or she can repeat structures (like participles).
Parallelism basically involves careful repetition. In order to achieve balance, beauty, rhythm, and clarity, a writer can repeat words, phrases, or clauses, or she can repeat structures (like participles).
Parallel structure means using the same pattern of words to show that two or more ideas have the same level of importance. This can happen at the word, phrase, or clause level. The usual way to join parallel structures is with the use of coordinating conjunctions such as "and" or "or."
DEFINITION
Coordinating conjunctions connect a word to a word, a phrase to a phrase, or a clause to a clause. The words, phrases, or clauses joined by a coordinating conjunction are equal in importance or are of the same type. The coordinating conjunctions are:
and, but, or, nor, for, yet, so.
Coordinating conjunctions connect a word to a word, a phrase to a phrase, or a clause to a clause. The words, phrases, or clauses joined by a coordinating conjunction are equal in importance or are of the same type. The coordinating conjunctions are:
and, but, or, nor, for, yet, so.
Examples of parallelism:
* Words and Phrases
With gerunds:
Julia likes hiking, swimming, and bicycling.
With infinitives:
Joseph likes to hike, to swim, and to ride a bicycle.
OR
Joseph likes to hike, swim, and ride a bicycle.
With participles:
Studying, eating, playing soccer, or sleeping, Morgan does everything with gusto.
* Clauses
With adjective clauses:
Lily likes to do any activity that is really hard, that she can do with her friends, that doesn’t take too much time, and that can be done at the beach.,
With adverb clauses:
When the wind is howling outside, when all she can hear is rumbling thunder, and when the rest of the house is dark, Maddy loves to snuggle up with a good book.
