Parallel Structure
"Love is patient, love is kind, and love is everlasting."
"Love is (adjective"
"If you want to be important—wonderful. If you want to be recognized—wonderful. If you want to be great—wonderful. But recognize that he who is greatest among you shall be your servant."
If you want (infinitive + adjective)-- wonderful"
We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.
"We Shall Fight"
"The sun rose, the birds sang, and the world welcomed a new day."
The (noun) (verb in past tense)
This nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
___ the people
We meet at a college noted for knowledge, in a city noted for progress, in a State noted for strength, and we stand in need of all three, for we meet in an hour of change and challenge, in a decade of hope and fear, in an age of both knowledge and ignorance.
Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me
Fool me (quantity), shame on (person)
Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.
"Let us not seek" and then "Let us accept"
"We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives."
We (verb). That may be the _____ of (life).
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men are created equal.” I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood. I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
"I Have a dream that..."
In this generation, we will make poverty history. In this generation, we will close the door on the HIV/AIDS pandemic. In this generation, we will defeat malaria. And we will end extreme poverty. In this generation!
"In this generation"
"It takes no compromise to give people their rights. It takes no money to respect the individual. It takes no political deal to give people freedom. It takes no survey to remove repression."
It takes no (noun) to (verb)
Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
(verb) together as (noun)
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.
It was (adjective) of (noun), it was (opposite adjective) of (same noun).