Parallelism
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Similarity of construction or meaning of clauses
placed side by side, especially clauses expressing the same sentiment
with slight modifications, as is common in Hebrew poetry; e. g.: --//At
her feet he bowed, he fell:/Where he bowed, there he fell down dead.
Judg. v. 27. -
the use of matching sentence structure, phrases, or longer parts so as to balance ideas of equal importance
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The state of being parallel or of corresponding in some way.
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