tricolon
C2CEFR level
94/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister
A rhetorical series of three parallel words, phrases or clauses, often used for emphasis and cadence.
'Government of the people, by the people, for the people' is the best-known tricolon in political rhetoric.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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