Language: parallelism and word stress

Parallelism means putting coordinated parts of a sentence in the same grammatical form. It gives the sentence balance: 'One was to Harry; the other was to her father.'

Equal form reinforces equal meaning. Parallel parts can show similarity or contrast: '...not like their little brown houses but bright brick houses with shining roofs.'

Joyce often repeats patterns: 'to go away, to leave her home'; Frank would 'take her in his arms, fold her in his arms'.

Word stress: in a word of more than one syllable, one syllable is stressed: said more strongly than the others.

For example: PHO-to-graph, es-CAPE, ex-CITE-ment, SAC-ri-fice.