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GCSE English Literature · key term
A group of three parallel words, phrases or clauses used for rhetorical effect.
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Revise: Act 3The three forms of address make a tricolon. Beginning with ‘Friends’ establishes personal closeness before shared civic and national identity. He speaks mainly in blank verse, whose flexible rhythm supports shifts between apparent restraint, grief and accusation.
A group of three parallel words, phrases or clauses used for emphasis or rhetorical effect.
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Paper 1
A group of three parallel words, phrases or clauses.
Revise: The Tempest exam questionNevertheless, “They being penitent” makes his mercy depend on his belief that the prisoners have repented. His closing tricolon promises to break his charms, restore their senses and allow them to be themselves. This reverses “My charms crack not”: strength now lies in ending control.
Component 2
A sequence of three parallel words, phrases or clauses.
Revise: Writer's methodsIn Stave Five, Scrooge announces, ‘I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a schoolboy.’ This tricolon of parallel similes replaces heaviness and isolation with freedom, goodness and youthful pleasure. ‘Schoolboy’ also recalls the lonely child of Stave Two, but now childhood is associated with joy.
