Balanced sentence
A balanced sentence is a sentence that employs parallel structures of approximately the same length and importance.
Examples
- "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times..." (A Tale of Two Cities)[1]
- "White chickens lay white eggs, and brown chickens lay brown eggs; so if white cows give white milk, do brown cows give chocolate milk?"[1]
- From Abraham Lincoln's 1863 Gettysburg Address, two powerful examples: "But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate—we cannot consecrate—we cannot hallow—this ground." and "...that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."
gollark: Okay, I've managed to demultiplex the optronic bee filters, which *might* restabilize the LyricLyuous processing.
gollark: Yes, there's increasing decoherence in the core bee cores. We may have to reload from backup.
gollark: Two 700MHz MIPS cores and some wireless hardware also.
gollark: Anyway, the osmarksrouter™s have 16MB RAM/128MB flash or something like that.
gollark: Do not not unpass go. Do not collect $200.
References
- "Focusing Sentences Through Parallelism". Archived from the original on 8 March 2008. Retrieved 2008-03-11.
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