-
enumerate like
things to
achieve symmetry. The
scheme is
called bicolon,
tricolon, or
tetracolon depending on
whether they are two, three, or four parallel...
- prose, but also in poetry, oral storytelling, films, and advertising. A
tricolon is a more
specific use of the rule of
three where three words or phrases...
-
phrase is a
rhetorical device known as a
tricolon. The most
common form of
tricolon in
English is an
ascending tricolon, and as such the
names are
always said...
- to form a
bicolon or a
tricolon.
Older terminology for the same
concepts (cola =
stich or hemistich,
bicolon = distich,
tricolon = tristich) are no longer...
- is the same length. A
tricolon has 3
clauses that do not need to be the same length. An
isocolon can be a
tricolon but a
tricolon cannot be an isocolon...
- the
desirability of a
property are "location, location, location". This
tricolon appeared in
print as
early as 1926,
though it is
often incorrectly attributed...
- Via, Veritas, Vita and
Julius Caesar's Veni, vidi, vici (examples of a
tricolon); and the
motto of the
French Republic: Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité; the...
- of
iambic pentameter (the
resulting conjunction is
called an
asyndetic tricolon). Conversely, on the next line, the end of "I come to bury Caesar, not...
- see", and "to conquer", respectively. The sentence's form is
classed as a
tricolon and a hendiatris. The
English phrase "I came, I saw, I conquered" employs...
-
content within a
compound word.
Tricolon diminuens:
combination of
three elements, each
decreasing in size.
Tricolon crescens:
combination of
three elements...
