Balanced sentence

A balanced sentence is a sentence that employs parallel structure of approximately the same length and importance.

Examples

  1. "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times..." (A Tale of Two Cities)[1]
  2. "White chickens lay white eggs, and brown chickens lay brown eggs; so if white cows give white milk, do brown cows give chocolate milk?"[1]
  3. From Lincoln's Gettysburg Address on November 19, 1863, 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.
  4. Control it before it controls you - By Sami Musa

References

  1. ^ a b "Focusing Sentences Through Parallelism". http://writing2.richmond.edu/writing/wweb/parstruc.html. Retrieved 2008-03-11.