' We have petitioned, and our petitions have been scorned we have entreated, and our entreaties have been disregarded we have begged, and they have mocked when our calamity came.and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.' - Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address Examples of Coherence in Literature Example 1: One Man’s Meat (by E.B. 'Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.' - John F. Global level Coherent Text In this type of text, coherence takes place within the whole text of a story or essay, rather than in its few parts.The inherent virtue of Socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.' - Winston Churchill, House of Commons, 22 October 1945 ' The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings.Parallelism is often used as a rhetorical device. The final phrase of the third example does not include a definite location, such as 'across the yard' or 'over the fence' rewriting to add one completes the sentence's parallelism.įurther information: Parallelism (rhetoric) Parallelism can be achieved by converting both terms to gerunds or to infinitives. The second example pairs a gerund with a regular noun.

To make it parallel, the sentence can be rewritten with all gerunds or all infinitives. The first nonparallel example has a mix of gerunds and infinitives. 'The dog ran across the yard, jumped over the fence, and sprinted down the alley.'Īll of the above examples are grammatically correct, even if they lack parallelism: 'cooking', 'jogging', and 'to read' are all grammatically valid conclusions to 'She likes', for instance. 'The dog ran across the yard, jumped over the fence, and sprinted away.' 'She likes cooking, jogging, and reading.' 'She likes cooking, jogging, and to read.' Indeed, during surveys of producers, it is clear that they are familiar with good. Thus, the intervention is perceived as a source of income in the short term instead of being a means of sustainable change. Parallelism may be accompanied by other figures of speech such as antithesis, anaphora, asyndeton, climax, epistrophe, and symploce. Moreover, this lack of external coherence in intervention strategies often leads to strategic behaviour (bias) on the part of beneficiaries. The application of parallelism affects readability and may make texts easier to process. In grammar, parallelism, also known as parallel structure or parallel construction, is a balance within one or more sentences of similar phrases or clauses that have the same grammatical structure.

External coherence examples