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 |