Parallelism

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Directions:

Event # 1 that is an example

of parallelism1 or parallel structure
Example:
Candy
Candy’s repetition of the phrase, “Tell you
what…” is an example of parallel structure.
This is used to show the reader that Candy is
the farm gossip.
Event that is paralleled
Text Support:
“Tell you what, last guy that had this bed was
a blacksmith- hell of nice fella and as clean a
guy as you wanna meet. Used to wash his
hands even after he ate.” (Steinbeck 19)
This is paralleled with Candy saying later on
page 20 and 21, “Tell ya What- know what he
done Christmas? Brang a gallon of whiskey
right in here an’ says, ‘Drink hearty boys.
Christmas comes but once a year.”

Example: Text Support:

Curley’s Wife

Example: Text Support:

Lennie and George

Example: Text Support:

Lennie and George

1 Parallelism: the use of repeating verbal constructions in poetry or stories that correspond in grammatical structure, sound,
meter, meaning, etc.