isocolon

[ ahy-suh-koh-luhn ]

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noun

, Rhetoric.

, plural i·so·co·la [ahy, -s, uh, -koh-l, uh].

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.”

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Word History and Origins

Origin of isocolon¹

1550–60; < Greek isókōlon, from neuter of isókōlos “of equal members,” equivalent to iso- (meaning “equal”) + colon ¹ (in the sense “a rhythmic measure within a prosodic sequence”)

isoclinic line isocracy

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