words per minute
11
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Speed
Writing Devices - Rhetoric
Tricolon
Examples
Effect: to convey wholeness, completeness, or finality
- Veni, vidi, vici - Julius Caesar (also using alliteration)
- life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. - The Declaration of Independence (also using alliteration)
- Eat, drink and be merry.
- Father, Son, and Holy Spirit - Jesus, Matt 28:18
- of graves, of worms and epitaphs - Shakespeare, Richard II
Effect: to end with a humorous or clever third by setting up a pattern and breaking it
- The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.
- Truth, justice and the American way.
- Wine, women, and song. (also using alliteration)
- Ready, steady, go. (also using rhyme)