Literary notes about parallel (AI summary)
The word "parallel" is employed in literature in multifaceted ways, extending from literal descriptions of physical alignment to more abstract comparisons that illuminate similarities in character, structure, or thematic development. It is used to denote spatial relations, as in descriptions of rivers or trenches that run side by side ([1],[2],[3],[4]), and to articulate similarities between narratives or passages, where distinct works share corresponding motifs or ideas ([5],[6],[7],[8]). Additionally, authors invoke parallel comparisons to stress analogies between historical events, contrasting personalities, or even conceptual frameworks, thereby enhancing the reader's understanding of balance and symmetry within the work ([9],[10],[11]). This diverse use underscores how the notion of parallelism enriches both the literal and metaphorical dimensions of literary expression.
- 605 A tributary of the Cophen, probably what is now called the Lundye, running parallel with the Kama.
— from The Anabasis of Alexander by Arrian - Third, battery in a parallel or trench of some kind already established.
— from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson - A trench runs along parallel to the butts, and at a few yards in front of them.
— from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson - A dead line is drawn through the rock, and another parallel, fifteen feet away, for a firing line.
— from Boy Scouts Handbook by Boy Scouts of America - As a classical parallel, Plato Resp. vii.
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon by J. B. Lightfoot - This is plain not only from the Indian word itself, but also from the parallel passage in Clement of Alexandria ( Strom. i. 15).
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon by J. B. Lightfoot - Jud. 18 ἡ φιλαργυρία πρὸς ἔιδωλα ὁδηγεῖ is no real parallel to St Paul’s language, though at first sight it seems to resemble it.
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon by J. B. Lightfoot - But the parallel passages do not favour this sense, nor will the words themselves admit it.
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon by J. B. Lightfoot - If so, there is a parallel to your conduct.
— from My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass - How am I, then, a villain To counsel Cassio to this parallel course, Directly to his good?
— from Othello, the Moor of Venice by William Shakespeare - Tristram Shandy , a parallel to Lamb, 403.
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 by Charles Lamb and Mary Lamb
