Parallelism (grammar)
From Freepedia
Parallelism is a rhetorical device. Making use of parallelism means to give two or more parts of the sentences a similar form so as to give the whole a definite pattern.
Parallelisms of various sorts are the chief rhetorical device of Biblical poetry in Hebrew.
Examples
"We charge him with having broken his coronation-oath - and we are told that he kept his marriage-vow! We accuse him of having given up his people to the merciless inflictions of the most hard-hearted of prelates - and the defence is that he took his little son on his knee and kissed him. We censure him for having violated the articles of the Petition of Right - and we are informed that he was accustomed to hear prayers at six o'clock in the morning." (Macauly)
