ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

LITERATURE QUESTIONS

MISCELLENEOUS QUESTIONS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Placing Phrase or Sentences of similar construction and meaning and balancing each other is called:
A
Parallelism
B
Alliteration
C
Para Rhyme
D
Rhetoric
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Parallel structure (also called parallelism) is the repetition of a chosen grammatical form within a sentence. By making each compared item or idea in your sentence follow the same grammatical pattern, you create a parallel construction.

Detailed explanation-2: -In English grammar, parallelism (also called parallel structure or parallel construction) is the repetition of the same grammatical form in two or more parts of a sentence.

Detailed explanation-3: -Parallelism means a parallel construction in which similar or repeated words, phrases, clauses, or sentence structure appear. The common saying, “Easy come, easy go” is an example of parallelism.

Detailed explanation-4: -Parallelism is a device which expresses several ideas in a series of similar structures . There are different types of parallelism : lexical, syntactic, semantic, synthetic, binary, antithetical .

Detailed explanation-5: -Parallelism is a grammatical technique involving the use of the same or similar grammatical structures and clauses within sentence structures. In rhetoric, parallelism similarly compounds and groups together structures and clauses to provide a flow in the sentence(s).

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