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Parallelism
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Parallelism is a linguistic and stylistic device of poetry, in which two or more lines constitute a complete sentence and their elements correspond to each other semantically, grammatically, or even phonetically, with repetition and variation. 1. Introduction Parallelism has been recognized in poetic texts in Chinese, Finnish, Mongolian, and Russian, as well as in Hebrew, Ugaritic, and other Semitic languages. In the West, Lowth (1778) is acknowledged to have laid down the foundations of a systematic inquiry into this phenomenon. H…