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Star Trek Space: The final frontier These are the voyages of the Starship, Enterprise Its 5 year mission To explore strange new worlds To seek out new life and new civilizations To boldly go where no man has gone before.
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PARALLEL PARALLEL STRUCTURESSTRUCTURES
Adding Rhythm To Your Writing
The Twilight ZoneThe Twilight ZoneThere is a fifth dimension beyond that
which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as
timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition,
and it lies between the pit of man’s fears, and the summit of his
knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination. It is an area which we call ... THE TWILIGHT ZONE.
(Zicree 1989, 31)
Star TrekStar TrekSpace:
The final frontierThese are the voyages of
the Starship, EnterpriseIts 5 year mission
To explore strange new worlds
To seek out new life and new civilizations
To boldly go where no man has gone before.
ParallelismParallelismParallelism is creating
grammatical rhythms with a number of word and sentence devices.
These parallel structures give prose a musical quality that adds emphasis and sound to central images.
Literal RepetitionLiteral RepetitionUsing the parallel structure of literal repetition, writers repeat
the exact same words to create an echo or a trancelike refrain.
In a piece on victory, Kristen Parker writes, They march off victoriously, or so they say. They die so victoriously, or so they think. But how victorious is it to bid good-bye to the sentiments they once knew.
Grammatical RepetitionGrammatical RepetitionGrammatical repetition is
the most common repetition used by
writers.
Grammatical repetition repeats identical
grammatical structures, but with different words.
Grammatical RepetitionGrammatical RepetitionExamples of this style can be seen in
this passage from Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address:
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate — we can not consecrate — we can not hallow — this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.
Rhythmic CategoriesRhythmic CategoriesThree Categories:
1) Structures connected with conjunctions2) Structures created with repeated phrases 3) Structures created with repeated clauses
The Imaginary ZoneThe Imaginary ZoneEach group is to create an imaginary
zone, filling in the blanks to create a parody. You can select a subject from school (math class, history class, lunch, a dance, a sport) or from an outside interest (MTV, sports figures, actors/actresses,
novelists, political personalities). Below, a group of eight-grade
students collaborated to demonstrate how this assignment
might be written about math:
The Math ZoneThe Math Zone There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to
man. It is a dimension as acute as one degree and as obtuse as 179
degrees. It is the vast plane between simple addition and advanced calculus, between
infinity and probability, and it lies between the teacher’s daily cup of hot coffee and the student’s daily pile of homework problems. This
is the dimension of chalkboard scribbles. It is an area which we
call the Math Zone.
The __________ Zone
There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as
_________________ as ______________ and as _________________ as _______________. It is the
__________________ ____________________ between _________________ and ________________, between ______________ and _________________,
and it lies between the ________________ of _______________ _______________, and the
__________________ of his/her __________________. This is the dimension of
__________________. It is an area which we call ... THE __________________ ZONE.
““I Have A Dream”I Have A Dream”
Delivered 28 August 1963, at the Lincoln
Memorial, Washington D.C. by Dr. Martin Luther
King, Jr.
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/Ihaveadream.htm