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Tricolon vs Isocolon - What's the difference?

tricolon | isocolon | Hyponyms |

Isocolon is a hyponym of tricolon.



In rhetoric terms the difference between tricolon and isocolon

is that tricolon is a sentence with three clearly defined parts of equal length, usually independent clauses while isocolon is a figure of speech in which parallelism is reinforced by members that are of the same length.

tricolon

English

(wikipedia tricolon)

Etymology 1

From (etyl)

Noun

(en-noun)
  • (rhetoric) A sentence with three clearly defined parts of equal length, usually independent clauses.

    • Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The symbol , a colon with three dots instead of two.

    • References

    *

    isocolon

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (rhetoric) A figure of speech in which parallelism is reinforced by members that are of the same length.

    • Hyponyms

    * tricolon

    See also

    *("isocolon" on Wikipedia)