Written literature later borrow from the parallelism of the folklore and drevnepismennyh literatures. In particular, the parallelism characteristic of ancient literature. Under the influence of the parallelism thoroughly studied in ancient rhetoric.
In European literature parallelism is complicated: it is widely distributed connection with anaphora, antithesis, chiasma and other figures.
Example of parallelism with anaphora and antithesis: I am the king - my office - I am the worm - I am God!(Derzhavin. God).
Often in the literature are reproduced forms of folklore:
In the blue sky of stars bleschut,
In the blue sea waves hleschut;
Cloud comes across the sky,
Barrel floating on the sea.
- A. S. Pushkin Tale of Tsar Saltan