What is the role of literature in our lives? No matter how strange it may seem, its significance is very great. By reading the works of great writers and poets, we learn to distinguish good from evil. But the book will not make us stronger, more experienced, we need to draw valuable knowledge from there and apply it in real life. You cannot live by illusions alone, and works of art create fictitious situations and heroes. Such a technique as parallelism is quite common in the literature, but few people pay attention to this. We propose to get acquainted with this concept a little closer.
The role of art
Concurrency in literature, like many other tricks, must be present. Their role is actually very large. Anyone who likes to read scientific literature knows that this particular genre is poor in expressive means. This is a solid dry text, absolutely not causing any emotions. The main task of literature is to captivate the reader, so that the work is read in one breath and causes a desire to know the continuation.
Without expressive means, we would not have experienced any feelings while reading a work: neither pity, nor sympathy, nor joy. Concurrency in literature is also important. What is its main role?
Parallelism
This concept can be heard in rhetoric; it means repetition or juxtaposition. The technique is used to emphasize the similarity of objects or their differences. Also, concurrency in the literature is used to emphasize significance. Let's take an example - the famous poem by Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin “Ruslan and Lyudmila”. There are the following lines: “Will I see your bright eyes? Will I hear a gentle conversation? ” Similarly, the author emphasizes what is extremely important for Ruslan. But this is just one example of possible use cases.
Folklore
What is concurrency in literature? We offer to analyze this using the example of ancient literature and folklore. If we consider versification, then this technique acts as an assistant in the construction of stanzas and rhymes. In biblical or, as it is also called, Hebrew versification, this technique and synonymy are used in parallel, which allows you to vary similar images.
The Old Germanic verse is also not devoid of parallelism, only necessarily acts together with alliteration. We will not disregard Finnish folklore, where it manifests itself with gradation.
Russian folklore
Concurrency here takes several forms:
- binomial;
- polynomial;
- negative;
- formal.
The first item presented is the simplest form. Consider parallelism in literature, examples from folklore: “A falcon flew across the sky, a young man walked around the world.” It is from this form that the more complex or polynomial ones are formed. This type represents several parallels at once. An interesting form, often used in the works of authors, is negative concurrency. For example: "Not a birch bowed, but a red girl bowed at her legs." As for the latter species, it is often found in ditties. There is absolutely no logical connection between the compared objects.
Later times
Modern and classical literature also use the parallelism technique, in addition, it is borrowed from folklore. The origin of this direction was in ancient times.
European fiction is also not without parallelism, only here it borders on antithesis and anaphora. Our great and mighty Russian language contains many other tricks used by the authors to this day, in order to interest its reader, to make the work really interesting and exciting.