A Brief Itroduction of Some Figures of Speech.docVIP

Parallelism By repeating certain grammatical structures, a writer can balance his material so as to order it, to emphasize it, and to make it easier for his audience to grasp. The principle of parallelism consists of expressing similar thoughts in duplicate structures, and it can be applied to structures of all ranks: Verbs: I approved, admired, and adored her way of winning a point in the argument. Nouns: power, glory, profit--- these were the aims of the attacking Huns. Phrases: I want to cry out, to complain in courts of law, and to lead an indignant army. Notice that merely using three phr