Syntactic parallelism

What is parallelism? This is a technique used in poetic speech. It is a comparison of two phenomena by the method of their parallel imaging. This kind of comparison emphasizes the difference or similarity of the phenomena occurring in the work of art. Poetic speech, he gives a special expression and has a variety of purposes, applications and meaning. Consider in what other syntactic constructions parallelism is used:

- In the sentence words are located according to a certain law. To properly build it, you need to follow the order of words, otherwise, if you rearrange any members, it can completely change the meaning.

- The reverse and direct order of words is called "inversion". The subject to the predicate is a direct order, and if inversion is used, that is, the inversion itself, the words will be located in a different order not provided by the grammatical rules. Used for strong expression of feelings, with an excited, emotional conversation.

The means of parallelism existing in the Russian language are called pictorial. They have one more name - stylistic figures. These include the following: an alliance, a multi-union, an anaphor, an exclamation and an appeal. Parallelism is a storehouse of expressive opportunities for speaking. The most famous visual means that are used in parallelism are a rhetorical question and syntactic parallelism.

Syntactic parallelism is the principle of the constructive design of stylistic figures or, as it is also called, a special case of repetition and symmetry. It consists in the "mirror" structure of syntactic constructions. This can be the same number of components, the syntactic relationship between them, the location of the components of these designs. At least two syntactic units should be present in syntactic parallelism. For example: "His figure expresses the invisible qualities of the soul, the hidden qualities of the spirit."

Syntactic parallelism (from the Greek word "parallelos" - walking alongside) is a completely monotonous construction of several sentences, in which the equally expressed terms are arranged in the same sequence.

Syntactic parallelism. Examples:

What is he looking for in a distant country?

What he threw in the edge of his own?

(M. Lermontov)

Syntactic parallelism occurs very often, and its meaning is as follows: in verse or prose the same sentence structure is strictly observed.

Here, the reversed (chiasm) and direct parallelism are distinguished. It depends on how the proposals relate to each other

Syntactic parallelism can enhance the rhetorical question (it is in its structure - an interrogative sentence, but a message).

Let us consider in more detail other means of parallelism:

Appeal is an expressive medium of speech (these are proper names, animal nicknames or names of objects). He has an invocative intonation.

Anaphora is the repetition of speech or individual words at the beginning of sentences or their passages, which constitute a statement.

Unionlessness is the deliberate omission of alliances in a sentence for the swiftness and dynamism of utterances.

Multi-union is the opposite in meaning of the stylistic structure of the proposal. Used in works of art for the expressiveness of speech. Unions at the same time are repeated, thereby emphasizing the incompleteness of thought, and make the proposals themselves more emotionally expressed.

A complex, called a period, contains a number of homogeneous sentences, for example, subordinate clauses. Usually they start with the same unions and have the same size.