Social:Balanced sentence
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Short description: Sentence that employs parallel structures of approximately the same length and importance
A balanced sentence is a sentence that employs parallel structures of approximately the same length and importance.
Examples
- "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times..." (A Tale of Two Cities)[1]
- "White chickens lay white eggs, and brown chickens lay brown eggs; so if white cows give white milk, do brown cows give chocolate milk?"[1]
- From Abraham Lincoln's 1863 Gettysburg Address, two powerful examples: "But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate—we cannot consecrate—we cannot hallow—this ground." and "...that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Focusing Sentences Through Parallelism". Archived from the original on 8 March 2008. https://web.archive.org/web/20080308223348/http://writing2.richmond.edu/WRITING/wweb/parstruc.html. Retrieved 2008-03-11.
See also
- Parallelism (grammar)
- Parallelism (rhetoric)
- Sentence clause structure
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