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The sound your’re hearing in that Oscar Wilde quote is called balance. Also known as parallelism, balance works because of the rub between similarity and difference.… Read the full article
Balance
Balancing act
Three ways to create parallelism
To create balance, you might:
1. Repeat and reverse.
| Start with your original idea | Repeat and reverse |
| It was the best of times | It was the worst of times |
| It was the age of wisdom | It was the age of foolishness |
| It was the epoch of belief | It was the epoch of incredulity |
| It was the season of Light | It was the season of Darkness |
| It was the spring of hope | It was the winter of despair |
2.
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Friction gives parallelism its punch
During my career as a freelance magazine writer, I interviewed some fascinating people: Robert Redford, Brad Pitt and George Clooney among them.… Read the full article