parallelism
noun/ˈpærəˌlɛlɪzəm/
Frequency rank: #19,037 most common English word
Meaning
the use of matching grammatical structures or ideas placed side by side for effect.
Example sentence
The speech was powerful because of the parallelism in its repeated phrases.
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