isocolon

[ ahy-suh-koh-luhn ]

noun,plural i·so·co·la [ahy-suh-koh-luh]. /ˈaɪ səˌkoʊ lə/. Rhetoric.
  1. 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 of isocolon

1
1550–60; <Greek isókōlon, from neuter of isókōlos “of equal members,” equivalent to iso- (meaning “equal”) + colon1 (in the sense “a rhythmic measure within a prosodic sequence”)

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