Eating Disorders: A Parallelism Analysis

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What is an eating disorder?

Parallelism: The Parallelism is in the four paragraph first line (Psychological, emotional, and physical problems). Parallelism is the use of components in a sentence that are grammatically the same; or similar in their construction, sound, meaning or meter. (http://literarydevices.net/parallelism/) In this article this is known as Parallelism because the ending is “al” in each word which means the ending of the words sound the same. This device is effective because it lists symptoms that are all connected. This ties into the theme by allowing the reader to realize the problems that eating disorder people face.
Analogy: the analogy is in the four paragraph third line (thin and attractive).Analogy a similarity between
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Personification is a comparison of a non-human thing that is giving attributes to a human trait. Food is our body’s fuel is personification because food is given a human trait which is the fuel in a human body. This device is effective because it talks about how the physical symptoms and emotional of compulsive eating are getting worse. This ties into theme because it talks about how compulsive eating increasing isolated and makes a human more depressed and unhappy and trying to exercise and diet can help you feel better and stress …show more content…
Onomatopoeia words that have sound that is represented. This word “Achoo” is an Onomatopoeia because it’s a sound which is representing the sound of someone sneezing. This device is used effectively because the article is about H1NI which is a virus that is very serious that many people die from as a result the device is representing the sound of a symptom which is sneezing .This connects to the theme because its representing a symptom that is caused by this virus which gets the reader to hear and imagine the symptom and it also catches the reader

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