A Tricolon has 3 clauses that do not need to be the same length.

A favourite device was the tricolon, a sentence with three clearly defined parts.

Other sources suggest two or more parts, and relate tricolon which is mentioned in the earlier chapter.

The sentence's form is classed as a tricolon and a hendiatris.

Another name for this collocation is tricolon when the three parts are of the same or consistent grammatical form.

Jokes lose their rhythm if you add a Welshman, or a fourth leg, to the tricolon.

Yet that same neat tricolon captures something more complex than an outright rejection of the Blair doctrine.

The second occasion was when Tony Blair laid out his priorities for office with a celebrated tricolon.

This tricolon displays a double specificity.

A tricolon is a more specific use of the rule of three where three words or phrases are equal in length and grammatical form.

(Catullus 43) as well as tricolon and alliteration.

That is a classic tricolon – the ancient Greek oratorical technique of listing things in threes, to build up tension and contrast.

While the following line, "then it fell, shearing through the scales, and flesh, and vertebrae," is a polysyndetic tricolon.

What Highet calls a tricolon we may today call a palilogy, the deliberate repetition of words and grammatical presentations, a sort of parallelism in threes.

For example, the line "fold after slimy fold knotting about him, twisting, crushing, killing him," is, in the highlighted text, an asyndetic tricolon.

He starts with two chiastic structures identifying his witnesses, Lucius Lucullus and the embassy, and then ridicules the prosecution with a tricolon crescendo.

Using Parallel syntax among two clauses is known as an Isocolon, when among three clauses it is known as a Tricolon.

An Isocolon can be a Tricolon but a Tricolon cannot be an Isocolon.

A tricolon that comprises parts in increasing size, magnitude or intensity is called a tricolon crescens, or an ascending tricolon.

The Black Cats, the Royal Navy helicopter display team, the Red Arrows, Italy's Frecce Tricolon and the Royal Jordanian Falcons are expected to perform at Saturday's show.

Lines 2-4 represent a tricolon crescendo, in which the three relative clauses become gradually longer in length: quem ludere, quem in sinu tenere, and cui primum digitum dare appetenti et acris solet incitare morsus.

Isocolon is a figure of speech in which a sentence is composed by two or more parts (cola) perfectly equivalent in structure, length and rhythm: it is called bicolon, tricolon, or tetracolon depending on whether they are two, three, or four.

The 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 in order of ascending syllable length.

For example, Mark Antony's "Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears" from Shakespeare's Julius Caesar would technically require the word "and" before "countrymen", but the conjunction "and" is omitted to preserve the rhythm of iambic pentameter (the resulting conjunction is called an asyndetic tricolon).

Again, a touch of anaphora: "If you had been a public figure from the time that you were a toddler, if you'd had to fight for a life that felt real and honest and normal [little tricolon (5) there, too] against all odds, then maybe you too might value privacy above all else."