...grammar, parallelism, also known as parallel structure or parallel construction, is a balance within one or more sentences of similar phrases or clauses that have the same grammatical structure.[1] The application of parallelism improves writing style and readability, and is thought to make sentences easier to process.[2] Parallelism is often achieved using antithesis, anaphora, asyndeton, climax, epistrophe, and symphonic.[3] : Lacking parallelism: She likes cooking, jogging, and to read. Lacking parallelism: "He likes to swim and running". Parallel: She likes cooking, jogging, and reading. Parallel: She likes to cook, jog, and read. Parallel: "He likes to swim and run." Parallel: "He likes swimming and running." In the above example, the first sentence has two gerunds and one infinitive. To make it parallel, the sentence can be rewritten with three gerunds or three infinitives. Lacking parallelism: The dog ran across the yard, jumped over the fence, and down the alley he sprinted. Parallel: The dog ran across the yard, jumped over the fence, and sprinted down the alley. Note that the first nonparallel example, while inelegantly worded, is grammatically correct: "cooking," "jogging," and "to read" are all grammatically valid conclusions to "She likes." The second nonparallel example is not grammatically correct: "down the alley he sprinted" is not a grammatically valid conclusion to "The dog." In rhetoric[edit] Further information: Parallelism (rhetoric) ...
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...1.I came; I saw; I conquer. ( 我来了我看见我征服) 2.To that work I now turn, with all the authority of my office. I ask the Congress to join with me. But no president, no Congress, no government, can undertake this mission alone. (Bill Clinton) 汉语意思是任何总统任何国会任何政府都不能单独完成这一使命。 3.This great Nation will endure as it has endured, will revive and will prosper. (Franklin D. Roosevelt) 我们的国家过去经得起考验今后还将经得起考验美国将复兴美国将繁荣。 4.Steadfast in our faith in the Almighty, we will advance toward a world where man's freedom is secure. To that end we will devote our strength, our resources, and our firmness of resolve. With God's help, the future of mankind will be assured in a world of justice, harmony, and peace. (Harry S. Truman) 在上帝的保佑下人类的未来无疑将是个公正、和谐与和平的世界。 5. We are creating a nation once again vibrant, robust and alive. But there are many mountains yet to climb.(Ronald Reagan) 这里里根运用三项式定语排比来描述人们创造的美国“朝气蓬勃、精力旺盛、充满活力”。文字简练生动给人留下深刻的印象。 We were in the midst of shock—but we acted. We acted quickly, boldly, decisively. (Franklin D. Roosevelt) 罗斯福回顾八年前美国所处的状态运用三个排比的状语阐述了美国人民的勇气和坚定。汉语意思是“我们虽然处在惊恐之中——但是我们采取了行动迅速、大胆、坚定地采取了行动。” 6.America is ready to encourage, eager to initiate, anxious to participate in any seemly program likely to lessen the probability of war, and promote that brotherhood of mankind which must be God's highest conception of human. (Warren G. Harding)“美国随时鼓励、热情推动、积极参加任何有助于减少战争爆发可能性的计划并促进上帝对人类关系的最高思想——四海之内皆兄弟。” 7. With this, we can build a great cathedral...
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...pare the processors’ access to printers and other I/O devices for the master/slave and the symmetric multiprocessing configurations. Give a real-life example where the master/slave configuration might be preferred. 2. Compare the processors’ access to main memory for the loosely coupled configuration and the symmetric multiprocessing configurations. Give a real-life example where the symmetric configuration might be preferred. 3. Describe the programmer’s role when implementing explicit parallelism. 4. Describe the programmer’s role when implementing implicit parallelism. 5. What steps does a well-designed multiprocessing system follow when it detects that a processor is failing? What is the central goal of most multiprocessing systems? 6. Give an example from real life of busy waiting. 7. In the last chapter, we discussed deadlocks. Describe in your own words why mutual exclusion is necessary for multiprogramming systems. 8. Compare and contrast multiprocessing and concurrent processing. Describe the role of process synchronization for both systems. 9. Describe the purpose of a buffer and give an example from your own experience where its use clearly benefits system response. 10. Consider this formula: G = (A + C2) * (E1)3 / D + B a. Show the order that a processor would follow to calculate G. To do so, break down the equation into the correct order of operations with one calculation per step. Show the formula for each step. b. Find the value of G: if...
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...Exercises 1. Compare the processors’ access to printers and other I/O devices for the master/slave and the symmetric multiprocessing configurations. Give a real-life example where the master/slave configuration might be preferred. 2. Compare the processors’ access to main memory for the loosely coupled configuration and the symmetric multiprocessing configurations. Give a real-life example where the symmetric configuration might be preferred. 3. Describe the programmer’s role when implementing explicit parallelism. 4. Describe the programmer’s role when implementing implicit parallelism. 5. What steps does a well-designed multiprocessing system follow when it detects that a processor is failing? What is the central goal of most multiprocessing systems? 6. Give an example from real life of busy waiting. 7. In the last chapter, we discussed deadlocks. Describe in your own words why mutual exclusion is necessary for multiprogramming systems. 8. Compare and contrast multiprocessing and concurrent processing. Describe the role of process synchronization for both systems. 9. Describe the purpose of a buffer and give an example from your own experience where its use clearly benefits system response. 10. Consider this formula: G = (A + C2) * (E1)3 / D + B a. Show the order that a processor would follow to calculate G. To do so, break down the equation into the correct order of operations with one calculation per step. Show the formula for each step. b. Find the...
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...In “The Yellow Wallpaper,” Charlotte Perkins Gilman shows the reader the troubled life of the narrator by showing parallelism through many aspects of her surroundings. The narrator is a woman who is mentally unstable and has been diagnosed with a nervous disorder and her husband, John, believes the way for her to begin getting well is by taking her to a colonial mansion and keeping her away from the public eye. He puts her in a room in the top of the house that is lined with yellow wallpaper and keeps her there until he finds her to be well again. In “The Yellow Wallpaper,” Gilman uses the description of the mansion, the room, and the wallpaper to give the readers an insight into the troubled life of the narrator. In the short story, the readers are first introduced to the narrator when she and her husband arrive at the mansion. When they arrive there, she describes the outside of the mansion as the” most beautiful place and as a colonial mansion”(542). In the story, she states that “It makes me think of English places that you read about, for there are hedges and walls and gates that lock, and lots of separate houses for the gardeners and people. There is a delicious garden!” (542). The author uses this to help show the reader the parallelism between the outward appearance of the mansion to the outward appearance of the narrator, and how they are both beautiful. This could also show the complexity of both the mansion and the narrator. She also states, “That...
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...Artifact Rationale 1 In the poem Regret Today by Catherine Pulsifer, Rahim Khan offers Amir an opportunity for redemption by using parallelism, diction and metaphors, when he calls him on June 2001 to tell him to come to Pakistan. Firstly, he uses parallelism in the first stanza to portray the numerous amounts of times that Amir feels regret throughout the novel. Since Rahim Khan knew about Hassan’s rape “shortly after it happened”, he suspected that Amir was feeling sorrowful after it took place (Hosseini, 315). An instance of this was at Amir’s birthday party when he saw him leaning against a wall and told him that he “can tell [him] anything [he] want. Anytime” (106). This shows that he had doubts about Amir’s sorrow and regret before he moved to America. As a result, he uses parallelism to ask multiple questions that a person might ask while regretful. Similarly, he uses parallelism in the second stanza in...
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...The use of parallelism as a literary device revolves around the repetition of words and sentences as a primary method of generating rhythm and meter. The poem "Learning to Love America" includes an extensive use of parallelism with the primary effect of juxtaposing ideas with contrasting meaning as a means of showing their differences or relationship. In some cases, the parallelism is created through grammatical construct which highlights an element of simplicity in this poem in its attempt to convey its message. The effective use of repetition and contrast in this poem set it as a distinct example in which parallelism stands out as the main literary device outlining the structure of the poem. The sentence "because the water of the ocean is...
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...diction, parallelism, and juxtaposition. Throughout the speech he adopts a passionate and inspirational tone in order to motivate and give hope to his war-weary audience. Lincoln uses repeated diction to capture the reader’s attention and achieve his purpose of dedicating the ground. Repeated diction is the use of same grammatical structure within a sentence to show that topic is all of the same level of importance. Lincoln uses this rhetorical strategy when he states several times throughout his speech, “Now we are engaged in a great civil war…” “We are met on a great battle-field…” “We have come to dedicate a portion of that field…” “It is altogether fitting proper that we should do this,” (lines 4-8). By using the word “we” repeatedly Lincoln is making everybody in his...
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...The contradictive topic of environmentalism leads to unproductive discussions. Edward O. Wilson’s satire illustrates this concept through a unique structure, parallelism, and diction. The discussions of the topic, environmentalism, are unproductive and redundant in nature. The parallelism of the two passages show how contradictive both arguments are. In the beginning, the passages both share the commonality of name calling. The use of parallelism illustrates how a discussion of this topic is useless. If both sides of the argument are only coming up with statements to oppose each other, there can not be a clear victor. In this circumstance, parallelism serves to primarily illustrate the satirical lens of the argument. Both passages view the ultimate agenda of the environmentalist and the “brown- lasher;” both claiming that each other is after either capitalism, or governmental power. The obvious structure of the passages, also illustrate that there is an unsettling nature of environmentalist discussions. The divisions of the two topics into two separate passages show how people are contradictive. This also emphasizes on the parallelism of the two passages. Parallelism in the entirety of the passages exemplifies that the nature of such discussions are ridiculous and unproductive in nature. The satirical lens of the literary work cannot be over looked. The sarcastic and critical diction emphasizes on the opposing attitudes about environmentalism. Additionally...
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...The excerpt provided from The Great Influenza uses multiple forms of rhetoric. The author, Barry, uses these rhetorical strategies to characterize scientific research. In characterizing scientific research, Barry uses strategies such as parallelism, deductive reasoning, and diction. These rhetorical strategies create a tone for the passage and provide supporting evidence for any claim the author may make. Parallelism is the way a sentence is structure in which similar words are used to support a specific claim. There are multiple examples of Barry using parallelism in this passage. One is in paragraph four, “There a single step can take them through the looking glass into a world that seems entirely different, and if they are at least partly correct their probing acts like a crystal to precipitate an order out of chaos, to create form, structure, and direction.” This is a very detailed sentence, but the parallelism does not come out until the end. When Barry is describing the probing acts, he mentions creating form. In creating form, one must also create structure and direction. Form is the organization of a particular thing based on being structured and having...
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...reflects on Reagan’s great personality and complements his work as president. Thatcher utilizes informal but respectful words, parallelism, and contrast to convince the audience of Reagan’s good character, and his importance to America along with the rest of the world. Thatcher uses a distinctly informal, admiring diction to show her respect and closeness to Reagan, and her agreement with his policies. An example of this informal diction is when she calls Reagan, “Ronnie”. This casual use of his popular nickname shows the American audience that she viewed Reagan like they did, like a friend. With her informal diction, she places herself among the people and reveals that she knew Reagan on a personal level, thus gaining the people’s trust and good will. By describing Reagan with admiring, complimentary words like “cheerful” and “invigorating”, she builds up his positive characteristics. Thatcher’s diction convinces her audience of her sincerity, and raises Reagan’s bright character in the minds of the audience....
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...Explain the following; I. VLIW architecture II. Superscalar processor TABLE OF CONTENTS MOI UNIVERSITY................................................................1. QUESTION.............................................................................1. TABLE OF CONTENTS.........................................................2. INTRODUCTION....................................................................3. VERY LONG INSTRUCTION WORD...................................3. WHY VLIW?............................................................................4. IMPLEMENTATION ADVANTAGES OF VLIW.................5. SUPERSCALAR ......................................................................6. EXAMPLES OF SUPERSCALAR ORGANIZATION............7. HOW TO IMPLEMENT THE IDEA.........................................7. BASIC SUPERSCALAR CONCEPTS......................................8. CONCLUSION...........................................................................8. REFERENCES............................................................................9. INTRODUCTION In the mid 1990s, IC fabrication technology was advanced enough to allow unprecedented implementations of computer architectures on a single chip. Also, the current rate of process advancement allows implementations to be improved at a rate that is satisfying for most of the markets these implementations serve. In particular, the vendors of general-purpose microprocessors are competing...
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...In Abraham Lincoln's speech, "The Gettysburg Address", the utilization of alliteration, repetion, and parallelism is examplified. Abraham Lincoln utilizes these rhetorical devices in order to honor the lives that were lost during the great battle of the Civil War and the importance of maintaining a nation that was conceived in liberty and equality. In the address, Abraham Lincoln exercises alliteration. By using alliteration he is able to obtain the audience's attention. Abraham Lincoln said, "Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal." By Abraham Lincoln repeating the use of the letter 'f' and the sound,...
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...CUDA (an acronym for COMPUTE UNIFED DEVICE ARCHITECTURE) reduces the complexity of the parallel programming to a great extent. The best feature of CUDA is that we can program the GPUs using C, JAVA and other high level programming environments. In this paper, we present the basics of CUDA programming with the need for the evolution of the same. This paper also presents the different applications of CUDA, which tells us why and how CUDA scores over other parallel programming architectures. Introduction: Parallelism is the age old technique used for the efficient data processing. The same technique re-emerging into TLP i.e., Thread Level Parallelism and in combination with some finely developed manufacturing technologies provided the world with huge benefits in the form of multi cores. Generally a GPU (Graphical Processing Unit) consists of multiple number of cores for the same reason as gaming is all about “all happening at the same time”, which requires parallelism. Each new generation of GPUs...
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...Chapter 1 Parallel Computer Models Prof. D. P Theng . GHRCE TAE TAE - I TAE - II TAE Components Quiz Test Assignment Date of Submission Second week- July 2013 Sept 2013 TAE - III TAE - IV TAE - V TAE - VI Technical Presentation Attendance PPT on Paper Review Chapter Review Fourth Week- July 2013 Sept 2013 First week- Aug 2013 Fourth Week- Aug 2013 Sept 2013 TAE - VII Guest Lecture/Industrial Visit Early computing was entirely mechanical: abacus (about 500 BC) mechanical adder/subtracter (Pascal, 1642) difference engine design (Babbage, 1827) binary mechanical computer (Zuse, 1941) electromechanical decimal machine (Aiken, 1944) Mechanical and electromechanical machines have limited speed and reliability because of the many moving parts. Modern machines use electronics for most information transmission. Computing is normally thought of as being divided into generations. Each successive generation is marked by sharp changes in hardware and software technologies. With some exceptions, most of the advances introduced in one generation are carried through to later generations. We are currently in the fifth generation. Technology and Architecture Vacuum tubes and relay memories CPU driven by a program counter (PC) and accumulator Machines had only fixed-point arithmetic Software and Applications Machine and assembly language Single user at a time No subroutine linkage...
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