EXERCISE 5

● EXERCISE 5 ●

Each of the following sentences is an example of parallelism. Identify the type of parallelism, explain its effect, and then model a sentence of your own on the example.

  1. To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament is affectation; to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humour of a scholar.

    —Francis Bacon

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    Chapter 6 - EXERCISE 5: - Each of the following sentences is an example of parallelism. Identify the type of parallelism, explain its effect, and then model a sentence of your own on the example. - To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament is affectation; to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humour of a scholar. —Francis Bacon
  2. Alas, art is long, and life is short.

    —Benjamin Franklin

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    Chapter 6 - EXERCISE 5: - Each of the following sentences is an example of parallelism. Identify the type of parallelism, explain its effect, and then model a sentence of your own on the example. - Alas, art is long, and life is short. —Benjamin Franklin
  3. Flowers are as common here . . . as people are in London.

    —Oscar Wilde

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    Chapter 6 - EXERCISE 5: - Each of the following sentences is an example of parallelism. Identify the type of parallelism, explain its effect, and then model a sentence of your own on the example. - Flowers are as common here . . . as people are in London. —Oscar Wilde
  4. Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is in an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.

    —Frederick Douglass

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    uZxg83qH9uNZ3NUqyV8wT7hdxc9/5MQeJeZaOsQNhvI0w6Xk3EOeDQ1B873FE1s7
    Chapter 6 - EXERCISE 5: - Each of the following sentences is an example of parallelism. Identify the type of parallelism, explain its effect, and then model a sentence of your own on the example. - Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is in an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe. —Frederick Douglass
  5. He carried a strobe light and the responsibility for the lives of his men.

    —Tim O’Brien

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    uZxg83qH9uNZ3NUqyV8wT7hdxc9/5MQeJeZaOsQNhvI0w6Xk3EOeDQ1B873FE1s7
    Chapter 6 - EXERCISE 5: - Each of the following sentences is an example of parallelism. Identify the type of parallelism, explain its effect, and then model a sentence of your own on the example. - He carried a strobe light and the responsibility for the lives of his men. —Tim O’Brien