排比【páibǐ】

parallelism, parallel structure, rhetoric, enumeration, repetition, writing style, speech, paibi

Three or more phrases built the same way and run together for force, the way speeches and essays build to a point: ，，。 "some sang, some danced, some chatted".

HSK 6

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Structure

[phrase A] ，[phrase B] ，[phrase C]

有的 + [verb phrase] ，有的 + [verb phrase] ，有的 + [verb phrase]

Description

排比 is parallelism: three or more phrases with the same shape and usually the same repeated word, set one after another. Each item adds to the one before, and the last carries the most weight. It belongs to speeches, essays, slogans and descriptive writing.

，，。

Reading makes you wiser, happier and calmer.

，，，。

In the park some people were running, some playing chess and some singing.

The repeated word

The shared word carries the pattern. It can be a verb (是, 让, 要), a frame (有的…有的…), or the opening of each clause.

，，。

A teacher is our friend, our family and our role model.

，，。

We should study well, work well and live well.

Ordering the items

Writers usually put the longest or strongest item last, so the series rises. Shorter items first, longer ones after, is the safe default.

，，，。

Spring has come: the grass is green, the flowers are out and the whole city has come back to life.

Keeping the shape

The effect breaks as soon as one item changes shape. If two items share 让 + person + adjective, the third has to as well.

× 读书让人聪明，让人快乐，还可以变得冷静 → 读书让人聪明，让人快乐，让人冷静

Two matched lines are 对偶, a different figure. 排比 needs at least three.

Examples

，，。

Reading makes you wiser, happier and calmer.

，，，。

In the park some people were running, some playing chess and some singing.

，，。

A teacher is our friend, our family and our role model.

，，。

We should study well, work well and live well.

，，，。

Spring has come; the grass is green, the flowers are out and the whole city has come back to life.

，，。

The mountains here are high, the water is clear and the people are warm.

，，，。

At the party some people sang, some danced and some chatted.

，，。

Time is life, time is money, time is everything.

，，。

I love the sky here, the sea here and every person here.

，，。

Persistence takes us further, lets us see more and makes us stronger.

，，。

He has crossed mountains, grasslands and deserts.

，，。

A good book is like a teacher, like a friend, like a lamp.

才…呢 / 才是 / 才不

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