摘 要: | Parallelisminitsbroadsenseispreciselytheoppositeofthekindofforegounding.Theimportanceofparallelismasafeatureofpoeticlanguagealmostrivalsthatofdeviation.AsRomanJakobsonhassaid'anyformofparallelismisanapportionmentofinvariantsandvariables'.Inotherwords,inanyparallelisticpatterntheremustbeaneIementofidentityandanelementofcontrast.Parallelismistypicalofmanyotheraspectsofhumancultureapartformliterature.Proverbs,slogans,nurseryrhymes,andmanyother'sub-liberary'usesoflanguagealsoaboundinparallelism.…
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