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)