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Isocolon is a figure of speech in which a sentence is composed by two or more parts (cola) perfectly equivalent in structure, length and rhythm:〔''Dizionario di retorica e stilistica'', UTET, Toino, 2004. ISBN 9788877508850〕 it is called bicolon, tricolon, or tetracolon depending on whether they are two, three, or four.〔 A well-known example of tricolon is Julius Caesar's "''Veni, vidi, vici''" ("I came; I saw; I conquered). The term is derived from the Greek (''ísos''), "equal" and (''kôlon''), "member, clause". The plural is '-cola' but in English may also be '-colons'.〔cf. "Bicola, Tricola, Paired Tricola, and Isaiah Variants in 2 Nephi 12 of the Book of Mormon: Authentic Hebrew Poetry?" at ()〕 ==Bicolon== An example of bicolon is the advertising slogan "buy one, get one" (you pay for one item but you get another free).〔 In Biblical poetry it is standard to see a pair of adjacent lines of poetry in which the second echoes the meaning of the first.〔Tremper Longman, Peter Enns, ''Dictionary of the Old Testament: wisdom, poetry & writings'' 3, p. 520〕 This can be considered a bicolon.〔 For example:
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