Identify the sentence from "Give me Liberty or Give Me Death" that demonstrates parallel structure (parallelism).

Question 1 options:

We have petitioned; we have remonstrated; we have supplicated; we have prostrated ourselves before the throne, and have implored its interposition to arrest the tyrannical hands of the ministry and Parliament.

Sir, we have done everything that could be done, to avert the storm which is now coming on.

"Let us not, I beseech you, sir, deceive ourselves.

None of the above

The correct answer is We have petitioned; we have remonstrated; we have supplicated; we have prostrated ourselves before the throne, and have implored its interposition to arrest the tyrannical hands of the ministry and Parliament.

Parallelism is a sequence of expressions with a parallel, that is, symmetrical structure. There is parallelism when there is a harmonious and logical chain between the different parts of the sentence and the text.

In order to have parallels, there must be correspondence and similarity between two words, ideas, terms that can be compared with each other.

The parallelism manifests itself mainly in syntactic and semantic structures.