Tricolon

 A // series // of three // parallel // words, phrases, or clauses. A list of three or more items, usually arranged in parallel form
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By convention, items in a series appear in parallel grammatical form: a noun is listed with other nouns, an- // ing // form other // -ing // forms, and so on. Failure to express such items in similar grammatical form is called // faulty parallelism //. ** Example: ** "She loved Maytree, his restlessness, his asceticism, his, especially, abdomen." (Annie Dillard, // The Maytrees // )  ** Example from E.B White essay, “The Ring of Time”  **  The enchantment grew not out of anything that happened or was performed but out of something that seemed to go round and around and around with the girl, attending her, a   steady gleam in the shape of a circle— a ring of ambition, of happiness, of youth.  ** (page 181) **
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