"parallelism"

Definition:

Similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses. See the essay "Of Studies," by Francis Bacon.

Etymology:

From Greek, "beside one another"

Examples:

• "It is by logic we prove, but by intuition we discover."
  (Leonardo da Vinci)



• "To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love."
  (Charles-Victor de Bonstettin)



• "The more we do, the more we can do."
  (William Hazlitt)



• "Voltaire could both lick boots and put the boot in. He was at once opportunist and courageous, cunning and sincere. He managed, with disconcerting ease, to reconcile love of freedom with love of hours."
  (Dominique Edde)



• "One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim."
  (Henry Brooks Adams)



• "Truth is not a diet but a condiment."
  (Christopher Morley)



• "When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative."
  (Martin Luther King, Jr.)



• "Our transportation crisis will be solved by a bigger plane or a wider road, mental illness with a pill, poverty with a law, slums with a bulldozer, urban conflict with a gas, racism with a goodwill gesture."
  (Philip Slater, The Pursuit of Loneliness)



• "Buy a bucket of chicken and have a barrel of fun."
  (Advertising slogan for Kentucky Fried Chicken)



• "The loss we felt was not the loss of ham but the loss of pig."
  (E. B. White, "Death of a Pig")



• "Today's students can put dope in their veins or hope in their brains. If they can conceive it and believe it, they can achieve it. They must know it is not their aptitude but their attitude that will determine their altitude."
  (Jesse Jackson)

Pronunciation: PAR-a-lell-izm

Also Known As: isocolon