Understanding Parallelism

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Definition of Parallelism

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Several ideas of equal importance by putting each of them into the same kind of grammatical structure.

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Non-Example of Parallelism

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She enjoys to swim, running, and to sleep.

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Example of Chiasmus

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When listening to Noah Kahn you only hear folk, but you hear all types of genres when listening to Taylor Swift.

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Definition of antithesis

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A contrast or opposition between two things by placing them next to one another.

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Example of antithesis

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Paxton is happy; though I am sad.

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Definition of Climax

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Climax is a device where the words or phrases are put in order of increasing importance in a sentence.

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Non-Example of Climax

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Last month I lost my wallet, a pencil, a book, and my keys.

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Characteristics of Polysyndeton

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Phrases connected with "and"

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Example of Polysyndeton

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My mom told me to wash the dishes, and clean the table, and do the laundry.

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Non-Example of Polysyndeton

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My mom told me to wash the dishes, clean the table, do the laundry.