Balanced sentence

Balanced sentence

A balanced sentence is a sentence that employs parallel structure 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")citeweb|url= http://writing2.richmond.edu/writing/wweb/parstruc.html|title=Focusing Sentences Through Parallelism|accessdate=2008-03-11]
#"White chickens lay white eggs, and brown chickens lay brown eggs; so if white cows give white milk, do brown cows give chocolate milk?"

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