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单词 isocolon
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isocolonn.

/ʌɪsəʊˈkəʊlən/
Etymology: < Greek ἰσόκωλος, ἰσόκωλον of equal members or clauses, < ἰσο- , iso- comb. form + κῶλον limb, member, colon n.2 Also in modern French (Littré).
Ancient Greek Rhetoric and Ancient Greek Prosody.
(a) The use of equal ‘cola’ or members of a period in immediate succession. (b) An isocolic period.
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1550 R. Sherry Treat. Schemes & Tropes sig. Dv Isocolon. Compar, euen or equall, is when the oracion hath in it the partes of the whyche we spake before, & that they be made of euen number of sillables: but thys equalitie must not stand by numbryng of them, but by perceyuyng of it in ye mynd.
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Isocolon, a Term us'd when two Sentences are alike in length.
1941 Eng. Stud. 23 16 When we start looking for Pettie's isocolon we do find an average of 8·5 words, but there is much more irregularity than in Lyly.
1962 G. K. Hunter John Lyly iv. 244 The highly patterned prose..is not there simply because Lyly was suffering from a bad dose of agnomination or isocolon.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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