📐parallelism

Meaning

The state of being parallel or similar; in literature, the use of components in a sentence that are grammatically the same or similar in construction.

Example Sentences

The writer used parallelism to give rhythm to his prose.

Synonyms

similarity, correspondence, analogy, balance

Antonyms

difference, contrast

Collocations

structural parallelism, rhetorical parallelism, parallelism in literature