isocolon

i·so·co·lon

[ahy-suh-koh-luhn]
noun, plural i·so·co·la [ahy-suh-koh-luh] . Rhetoric.
a figure of speech or sentence having a parallel structure formed by the use of two or more clauses, or cola, of similar length, as “The bigger they are, the harder they fall.”

Origin:
< Greek isokōlon, from neuter of isokōlos ‘of equal members’, equivalent to iso- + colon1 ( def 2 )

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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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