Parallelism: Parallelism is the balance and agreement of two or more words, phrases or clauses. Before this year, I used paralellism in my writing, but not in a consistent manner. This was because I didn't know parallelism was an actual rule, I thought it just "was". I never contemplated how I should list a series of events, I just did it. Now that I have learned the technicalities of parallelism through this class and a SAT class I attended, I learned it by completing countless SAT practice tests, with some obvious parallelism errors that my grammatical ear found, as well as some that took some deeper thinking about the concept of parallelism itself.
Examples:
"As I descended the light dwindled slowly, yet at the same time without altering ots quality, as if I and not light were changeing. decreasing..."(131).
"...Dilsey opened the door of the cabin and emerged, needled laterally into her flesh, precipitating not so much a moisture as a substance partaking of the quality of thin, not quite congealed oil"(206).
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