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