isocolon

American  

[ahy-suh-koh-luhn] / ˈaɪ səˌkoʊ lən /

noun

Rhetoric.

isocola plural

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.”

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Inflected Forms

noun

• isocola
  plural

Etymology

Origin of isocolon

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”)