TRICOLON-2+1  三分法，二加一

三分法 TRICOLON organised in such a way that the first two members are parallel, and the last is deviating.

Hypernym
  • TRICOLONREPETITIO of a type of discourse to form a tripartite overall structure.
    • REPETITIORHETORICAL FIGURE in which one and the same lexical, phonological, syntactic, or semantic element is repeated for rhetorical effect./...x...x.../: non-adjacent repetition of the same word, contrast morphological reduplication.
      • RHETORICAL FIGURE形式詞格　RHETORICAL DEVICE which mainly consists in the distribution of expressions in a passage.
Hyponym
It is significant that if there is any special focus it has to be on the last element in classical Chinese. For example, LY 1 is dominated by this device throughout.

Rhetorical device locations: 14
  • 韓非子 是故兵終身暴露於外， 士民疲病於內 霸王之名不成 此固以失霸王之道三矣
  • 韓非子 不謹其閉， 不固其門 虎乃將存
  • 韓非子 不慎其事， 不掩其情 賊乃將生
  • 韓非子 弒其主， 代其所 人莫不與
  • 韓非子 “兕無所投其角， 虎無所錯其爪 兵無所容其刃

    Change of type of subject. No CRESCENDO.

  • 道德經 不尚賢，

    The third member has 民心 for 民不 .

  • 道德經 絕聖棄智， 民利百倍 絕仁棄義 民復孝慈 絕巧棄利 盜賊無有

    Line 6 does not continue the ANAPHORA of 民 .

  • 道德經 知其雄，

    Last member deviating, but SHORTER, and not a case of crescendo.

  • 道德經 不爭而善勝。 不言而善應 不召而自來

    Third member deviating.

  • 論語 為人謀而不忠乎？ 與朋友交而不信乎 傳不習乎

    It is the remark on putting into practice what has passed on to one that is the important and non-trivial one. The other two are un-surprising and conventional.

  • 論語 敬事而信， 節用而愛人 使民以時

    The deviating member of the TRICOLON is, as predicted, the third member, the first two exhibiting PARISON.

  • 論語 「成事不說， 遂事不諫

    Note the deviating third member.

  • 論語 拜下，
  • 論語 友便辟， 友善柔 友便佞