Explanation: parallelism is a literary device that consists in the repetition of the grammatical structure of different words or phrases in a sentence or paragraph, in order to emphasize an idea or to create an impact in the audience. In the given excerpt we can see an example of the use of parallelism, because it repeats the use of pair of words with contrary meaning (the far and the near, the home counties and the back, the rich and the poor).
