Authors use parallelism to create balance and force in their writing. They can use parallelism in words, phrases, or clauses to emphasize, contrast, or connect ideas. Although parallelism may be hard to incorporate and identify in literary works, it communicates the idea of the sentence in a more clear and efficient way. The clarity of the sentence that results from parallel structure makes it easy for the reader to identify the connections that the author makes between ideas. Similar to other literary concepts, parallelism has many subdivisions. An anaphora is a specific type of parallelism that occurs when authors repeat a word or a phrase at the beginning of consecutive phrases. An anaphora usually is used to create periodic sentences since it can be used to create tension and suspense, making the reader wait until the end of the sentence to discover the main idea. Another branch of …show more content…
An antimetabole is created when an author repeats words in the opposite order of which they first appeared. This form of repetition emphasizes the central idea of the sentence and makes it easy to remember because it gives the reader two opportunities to comprehend it. The first part of the sentence illustrates the central idea of the sentence, and the second part places emphasis of the idea, imprinting the pattern of the sentence on the reader’s mind. In addition to an anaphora and antimetabole, parallelism can contain an antithesis by harboring contrasting sets of ideas. The parallelism creates a clear comparison between the two ideas to emphasize their distinctions. Instead of choosing contrasting pieces of evidence that are not parallel, an author incorporates an antithesis when he wants the contradiction between two ideas to be the main focus of the sentence. Finally, an author can use a zeugma in parallelism when he uses different words that are grammatically
She uses parallelism to give people another perspective on how she felt and still feels about being an immigrant in the U.S., so that more people will be able to understand her struggle and be able to relate to it. One of the sentences in the book in which she uses parallelism is, “It made sense at that moment, perhaps by the logic employed moments before bungee jumping” (pg.740). In this sentence Firoozeh compares making the decision to change her name to Julie, to deciding to go bungee jumping. This emphasizes that she had trouble after making this decision and maybe even regretting making the decision because her inner emotions were conflicted. One side of her wanted to just be a normal girl from American while the other side of her wanted to show her heritage and be who she legitimately was. When she references this through the parallelism of someone going bungee jumping, it causes the reader to more easily understand how Firoozeh felt throughout the whole process of changing her name to Julie as a young
The book that will be reviewed is Fahrenheit 451, written by Ray Bradbury. The author used the effect of parallelism extremely well by showing the similarities of both then and now. In the following paragraphs we're going to encounter these parallelisms, we will compare the book to the time period in which it was written, and our own time period post September 11. Before we can do this we must first get to know the author and the era in which it was based off of just a bit.
“I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.” Antithesis is defined as a rhetorical device in which two opposing ideas are put into a sentence to achieve a contr...
Parallelism is briefly several parts of a sentence, that are expressed in similar grammatical form to show that the ideas are equal in importance. King states on page 4, paragraph 1,“...when you have seen hate filled policemen curse, kick and even kill your black brothers and sisters; when you see the vast majority of your twenty
Although, the amplification in the text is “her face wrinkled up into a grimace of disgust” and it refers to a literary practice wherein the writer embellishes the sentence by adding further information to it in order to increase the importance. Moreover, another literary feature present would be the alliteration, which is “a neighbouring house rung after rung”. An allegory appears as well with “like a mask of obsidian” and an anthropomorphism too with “tremulous”. An example of hyperbole in this passage could be “what a wonderfully intimate relationship”. Finally, Aldous Huxley put in juxtaposition Bernard and Lenina in the sentence “she had never seen anything so indecent in her life and what made it worse was that, instead of tactfully ignoring it, Bernard proceeded to perform open comments on this revolting viviparous scene.”. Moreover, a juxtaposition is a literary device, wherein the author places a person, concept, place, idea or theme parallel to another. In addition, the purpose of juxtaposing two directly or indirectly related entities close together in literature is to highlight the contrast between the two and compare them. Although, this literary device is usually used for etching out a character in detail, creating suspense or lending a rhetorical
Lincoln cleverly uses the rhetorical devices of juxtaposition, parallelism, and repetition. Juxtaposition is the comparison of two ...
He constantly uses it so the readers will not forget the claim he made in the beginning of the passage. Parallelism is when sentences have a similarity that are expressed similar to show that the topic is very important, it is essentially explained in different ways so the audience can understand the importance of the main idea. He gives examples on fiction and reading, “Fiction has two uses. Firstly, it's a gateway drug to reading. The drive to know what happens next, to want to turn the page, the need to keep going, even if it's hard, because someone's in trouble and you have to know how it's all going to end … that's a very real drive” (Gaiman 9).
The antithesis in the 1st paragraph is “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not live.” Here Threau is stating how if he did the opposite, he would regret the outcome. He would regret not going to the woods and not learning about life to his fullest.
Deep-seated in these practices is added universal investigative and enquiring of acquainted conflicts between philosophy and the art of speaking and/or effective writing. Most often we see the figurative and rhetorical elements of a text as purely complementary and marginal to the basic reasoning of its debate, closer exploration often exposes that metaphor and rhetoric play an important role in the readers understanding of a piece of literary art. Usually the figural and metaphorical foundations strongly back or it can destabilize the reasoning of the texts. Deconstruction however does not indicate that all works are meaningless, but rather that they are spilling over with numerous and sometimes contradictory meanings. Derrida, having his roots in philosophy brings up the question, “what is the meaning of the meaning?”
Parallelism is a repetition of words, phrases, or sentences that have the same grammatical structure or that state a similar idea. We first see the phrase “what can one do” when the main character describes her husband’s insensitivity toward her sickness. She says “You see, he does not believe I am sick! And what can one do?” She continues to describe how her husband has reassured relatives that she has a “temporary nervous depression—A slight hysterical tendency—what is one to do?” Finally, she opens up about her disapproval of the treatment and insensitivity but changes her mind and goes on to say “but what can one do” (Gilman, “The Yellow Wallpaper" 1)? The repetition of the phrase creates an emotional effect on the readers particularly those who are women. Gilman uses the repetition of such a phrase to create a sense of helplessness and to show how much John has an effect on the main character’s mind. Throughout the passage, the reader can constantly see the main character desiring one thing then changing her mind. She repeats phrases like “but John says,” or “but John laughs.” (Gilman, “The Yellow Wallpaper" 2). A clear example of this is shown when the narrator says “I sometimes fancy that in my condition, if I had less opposition and more society and stimulus – but John says the very worst thing I can do is to think
The metafictional devices in Larry Levis’ “The Poem You Asked For” are found in overt and subtle ways throughout the poem. The first metafictional device is the poem is about a character writing a poem. The narrator references the odious poem in every single stanza. Despite the narrator’s best efforts, the poem r...
Labyrinth as a metaphor, a motif, and a typological design, is more expressively telling of the problematic nature of the metafictional writing. First of all, both labyrinth and metafiction have the same ontological dimension that reflects the mode and status of a troubled existence in the world and/or the text. Hence they are mutually conceived as representing the text of the world formula. As an existential metaphor, labyrinth shifts the existentialist dasein (being there in the world) into the textual dasein (being there in the text). Also, being either multi coursal or circular in design, it proves to be analogous to the de-teleological self-reflexive structure of metafictional narratives.
In this part of the speech, General Douglas MacArthur uses parallelism to arise a dramatically strong feeling from the audience. With Parallelism, he can effectively emphasize his point and to make them more memorable as he go through his speech. To let people to understand how much the soldiers had devoted their life to their loving country and to give tribute to the great American soldiers.
...ing their articulation, they try to make the readers reflect their emotions. Dillard mainly uses her tone to portray her ideas. Krakauer uses contradictory views of other people and his own thoughts to evaluate the journey of McCandless. O’Brien illustrates war stories and emotions created due to war stories on different plots. All these authors use diction in certain parts of their text to make their argument peculiar. They use contradictory views to make the reader choose the view that is correct for him/her, instead of forcing a conclusion on them.
...oes hand in hand with the structure of the poem as well; bringing about a certain rhythm through punctuation and line breaks. It is this rhythm brings out the repetition and clash of elements especially with parentheses, which allows us to look at the element of starvation while considering the reaction of the press.