{{Short description|Sentence that employs parallel structures of approximately the same length and importance}} 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'')<ref name="ex1">{{cite web|url= http://writing2.richmond.edu/writing/wweb/parstruc.html|title=Focusing Sentences Through Parallelism|accessdate=2008-03-11| archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20080308223348/http://writing2.richmond.edu/WRITING/wweb/parstruc.html| archivedate= 8 March 2008 | url-status= live}}</ref> #"White chickens lay white eggs, and brown chickens lay brown eggs; so if white cows give white milk, do brown cows give chocolate milk?"<ref name="ex1"/> #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."
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==See also== * Parallelism (grammar) * Parallelism (rhetoric) * Sentence clause structure
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Category:Grammar Category:Style (fiction) Category:Narratology Category:Writing
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