| Figure Name | tricolon |
| Source | Silva Rhetoricae (http://humanities.byu.edu/rhetoric/Silva.htm), ODLT (http://www.odlt.org/ballast/tricolon.html); De Mille (1882) ("tricola") |
| Earliest Source | None |
| Synonyms | tricola |
| Etymology | None |
| Type | Scheme |
| Linguistic Domain |
Syntactic |
| Definition |
1. Three parallel elements of the same length occurring together in a series. (Silva Rhetoricae) 2. 88. TRICOLA. |
| Example |
1. Veni, vidi, vici. —Julius Caesar 1. Let's dine, let's dance, let's kiss. (Silva Rhetoricae) 2. This is called "tricola:" 2."My heart leaps up when I behold |
| Kind Of | Symmetry Repetition Series |
| Part Of | |
| Related Figures | isocolon, parallelism, figures of parallelism, figures of balance |
| Notes | |
| Confidence | Unconfident |
| Last Editor | Samantha Price |
| Confidence | Unconfident |
| Editorial Notes | |
| Reviewed | No |