Simple examples:
* Easy come, easy go.
* Out of sight, out of mind.
* The more you learn, the more you realize you don't know.
More complex examples:
* "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." (from the US Declaration of Independence)
* "It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves."
* "They came, they saw, they conquered."
Parallelism in action:
Parallelism is a rhetorical device that creates a sense of balance and rhythm in writing. It uses similar grammatical structures to express related ideas. In the examples above, notice how the repeated words or phrases create a sense of symmetry and emphasis.
Let me know if you'd like more examples or want to explore how parallelism works in different types of writing!