Tricolon

"will [ing] nothing — want [ing] [nothing], and do [ing] nothing" (the sneer in the tricolon is almost audible). ❋ Unknown (2007)

In an age when parliamentary oratory is assumed be dead or moribund at best, it is a pleasure to record that this was one of the most hotly contested awards with lively debate on the merits of all sorts of rhetorical devices from the Ciceronian tricolon to the good old cheap shot. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The emotional height of the tricolon, where Ovid describes poetic inspiration, gives way to a comparatively prosaic distich where he explains that the conditions necessary for inspiration do not exist at ❋ 43 BC-18? Ovid (N/A)

= The use of the third person adds to the emotive power of the tricolon 'ager ... hirundo ... ❋ 43 BC-18? Ovid (N/A)

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= 9-10 = form a tricolon, where each phrase represents the same action in progressively more specific terms: (1) 'dissimulas etiam' (2) 'nec me uis nosse uideri' (3) 'quisque sit audito nomine Naso rogas'. ❋ 43 BC-18? Ovid (N/A)

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