Definition: This is a persuasive technique in which an author creates a BALANCED sentence by re-using the same word structure. Example: The carpenter singing... The mason singing... The boatman singing... from "I Hear America Singing" by Walt Whitman. whats the definition

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we need to see the paragraphs in order to answer this.

his tongue, i believe, was bloody and hanging out of his mouth.

he looked as if he were hungry.

he has several wolf-like qualities; a gray coat, sharp claws and yellow fangs.

those eyes made me feel, dear reader, like the end was near.

as i reached for a stick, he moved to the other side of the hill.

panting and hungry, he looked at me, a defenseless human and he snarled.

well i said my prayers, however, he simply turned and limped off. 

i'm thinking it would be when compound subjects are joined by or, nor,either-or, neither-nor.