PARALLELISM
Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
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PARALLELISM. In
RHETORIC, a device in which a formula or structural pattern is repeated, as in the
LATIN sequence
veni,
vidi,
vici and its English translation
I came,
I saw,
I conquered. It occurs in sayings and proverbs (such as
Now you see them,
now you don't and
Out of sight,
out of mind), and in verse and poetic prose (‘My mother groaned, my father wept— / Into the dangerous world I leapt’ ( William Blake,
Songs of Experience)). See
ANTITHESIS,
REPETITION.
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Pentameter points
Newspaper article from: Gloucestershire Echo, The; 12/5/2007; 393 words
; Operation Pentameter 2 aims to rescue and protect victims of trafficking for sexual...and bring to justice those involved in criminal activity. Pentameter 2 follows Pentameter 1, which took place across the UK throughout 2006. Pentameter...
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Intonation and iambic pentameter.
Magazine article from: Papers on Language & Literature; 9/22/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...metrists confined their attention to iambic pentameter and attempted to give an account of...whether a given line of putative iambic pentameter was metrical or not. Although the original...Keyser account described an iambic pentameter line as a sequence of positions defined...
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A novel in the spirit of iambic pentameter
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune; 9/11/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...novel in the spirit of iambic pentameter Byline: DAVID ORR Section: Review...for instance, is Chowder on pentameter: "People are going to feed you...of oyster crackers about iambic pentameter. They're going to say, Oh...
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 "Bucks Herald (Aylesbury, England)")
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OPERATION PENTAMETER SHEDS LIGHT ON THAMES VALLEY SEX INDUSTRY (INC AYLESBURY).
Newspaper article from: Bucks Herald (Aylesbury, England); 5/25/2006; 700+ words
; ...more than 40 brothels across the Force as part of Operation Pentameter. The specialised team, made up of officers drawn from each...who worked as the lead victim liaison officer on Operation Pentameter, explained the thinking behind this approach: "If a woman...
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 "The Birmingham Post (England)")
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The master of Islamic pentameter; COMMENT Amongst this year's GCSE exam papers were a handful of heroic failures. Christian Fraser reports.
Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England); 11/14/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...was born in the year 1564, supposedly on his birthday. He wrote tragedies, comedies and hysterectomies, all in Islamic pentameter. Romeo and Juliet are an example of an heroic couplet. Romeo's last wish was to be laid by Juliet. qWriting at the same...
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 "The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland)")
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Complex characters in Iambic Pentameter; REVIEW; Buffalo Bills @ Lyric.(News)
Newspaper article from: The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland); 1/23/2002; 686 words
; ...unpredictable, incompetence. And, as we realise, to our amazement, with BJ's first long speech, a text written in iambic pentameter. Listen to Mamet's jokes, as the fine cast lends them to each further clause, in add-ons to which no one else could...
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Daring Diction; The experimental film Yes attempts to resurrect iambic pentameter.
Newspaper article from: Monterey County Weekly; 8/4/2005; ; 631 words
; A post-9/11 cross-cultural love story spoken entirely in iambic pentameter? For the less adventurous moviegoer, that might sound like the cinematic equivalent of a root canal without anesthesia. But...
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 "Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)")
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She couldn't say no to `Yes'; Oscar nominee Joan Allen tackles iambic pentameter and topical conflicts in a challenging drama.(ENTERTAINMENT)
Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN); 7/10/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...passion and politics, science and religion. The movie, opening Friday in the Twin Cities area, came to her in iambic pentameter, Shakespeare's favorite meter. It was a heady concoction of current and age-old themes, modern and classical artistic...
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The Future Pentameters Theatre, London NW3 ; THEATRE REVIEWS
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Ceramic pentameter.(Arts & Literature)
Newspaper article from: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR); 4/7/2003; 364 words
; Byline: The Register-Guard Potty poetry is everywhere. Here is a sampling of prose found on the walls and stalls at local high schools. Peace, love and happinessall starts right here Sometimes I wishthe Aliens wouldcome and make ustheir pets, then Icould get oneof thosecool beds with myname on it
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pentameter
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...a final short e, his pentameters often end in an 11th...his Canterbury Tales the pentameters are disposed in rhyming pairs. The pentameter couplet was used also...couplet became one of strict pentameters. This, known as the...
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iambic pentameter
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
iambic pentameter see pentameter .
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metre
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
...third foot. Elegiac couplets linked the hexameter with a pentameter which consisted of two feet (dactyls or spondees) and a...not in the couplet that the five-foot iambic line (imabic pentameter) attained greatest importance. Introduced into poetic drama...
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alexandrine
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...The most notable example is found in the Spenserian stanza, which contains eight iambic pentameters and an alexandrine rhyming with the last pentameter. Pope's "Essay on Criticism" contains what is probably the most quoted alexandrine in...
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Wheatley, Phillis (1754-1784)
Book article from: American Eras
...Ovid from the Latin, Biblical paraphrases, and poems on nature, memory, and imagination, typically composed in iambic pentameter and heroic couplets. In her best-known poem, “On Being Brought from Africa to America,” Wheatley...
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