Make It Parallel
Is It Parallel?
Why Are They Parallel?
Parallelism Definitions
What is Parallel?
100
Make a sentence using parallel words that are adjectives describing space.
Fantastic!
100
Doggy likes running, jumping, and to eat.
No, if it were to be changed to eating rather than to eat it would be parallel.
100
As she approached the mat Jordyn was anxious, scared, and determined.
This is parallel through words as anxious, scared, and determined are all adjectives
100
Sentences or parts of a sentence are parallel when structures within them take the same form.
What is parallel structure?
100
Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life?
Hurry and waste.
200
Make a sentence using parallel phrases describing a day at school.
Great!
200
Johnny was instructed that he has to train, he has to rest, and he has to do his best.
Yes, this is parallel because the phrases following instructed that all start with he has to with a verb.
200
The street cat would have no place to sleep, no food to eat, and no water to drink.
These are parallel through phrases as they all have no followed by a noun and verb.
200
When the same type of words are parallel such as two nouns or two verbs.
What is parallel structure in words?
200
Jacob like walking, talking, and stalking.
Walking, talking, and stalking.
300
Make a sentence using parallel clauses describing a vacation or trip.
Incredible!
300
He uses nouns, verbs, and adjectives.
Yes, this is parallel because noun, verb, adjective all take the form of a noun following the verb uses.
300
Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. -Martin Luther King
This is parallel through contrast by using antithesis.
300
When phrases in a sentence have the same form and purpose.
What is parallel structure using phrases?
300
In eternity there is indeed something true and sublime?
True and sublime
400
Make a sentence using antimetabole.
WHOAAAA!!! Amazing job!
400
If we are really dying, let us hear the rattle in our throats and feel cold in the extremities; if we are alive, let us go about our business. -Henry David Thoreau
Yes, he uses a independent then dependent clause before and after the semi colon making the sentence parallel.
400
If you can’t be with the one you love, love the one you’re with.
This is parallel through antimetabole which is repetition of words in an opposite order.
400
Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases clauses or lines.
What is Anaphora?
400
Where I lived, and What I Lived For.
Trick question-ish. The sentence is composed of two clauses that are parallel in structure as they are both dependent clasues.
500
Make a sentence using anaphora.
YES YOUUUUUU.
500
In other words, Facebook activism succeeds not by motivating people to make a real sacrifice but by motivating them to do the things that people do when they are not motivated enough to make a sacrifice. -Malcolm Gladwell
Yes, he repeats the phrase by motivating thus uses parallel structure to emphasize the contrast
500
Someone sent me a T-shirt not long ago that read, "Well-Behaved Women Don't Make History." They don't make good lawyers, or doctors or businesswomen. -Anna Quindlen
This is parallel because this is an example of zeugma as the nouns in this sentence have different meanings, such as history is not an occupation like the rest.
500
Opposition, or contrast, of ideas or words in a parallel construction.
What is antithesis?
500
Men esteem truth remote, in the outskirts of the system behind the farthest star, before Adam and after the last man.
In the outskirts, before the farthest star, before Adam, and after the last man.