PARALLEL CONSTRUCTIONS
Parallelism is a stylistic device of producing two or more syntactic structures according to the same syntactic pattern: Mary cooked dinner, John watched TV, Pete played tennis. Assigned features. Parallel constructions is a means of enumerating facts, comparing them or confronting them. Parallel confrontation of facts may result in another stylistic device - antithesis: Married men have wives, and don't seem to want them. Single fellows have no wives, and do itch to obtain them. Communicative functions. Syntactic parallelism is polyfunctional. It creates rhythm and is typical of poetry. It makes speech persuasive and is a feature of the publicistic and oratory styles. It underlines important information and is widely used in everyday speech. More examples: The cock is crowing, The stream is flowing, The small birds twitter, The lake doth glitter. Our senses perceive no extremes. Too much sound deafens us; too much light dazzles us; too great distance or proximity hinders our view. Сядеш собі: вітер віє, сонце гріє, картоплиння навіває думки. Гуде ярмарок... Бігають коні, кричать крамарі, регочуться дівчата, крутиться карусель... Другі сміються. Треті плачуть. То заблищить у небі яскраво одинока зірка, то засвітяться контури сизуватої хмари.
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