The drama-related ploy of revealing a series of events or objects in the form of threes, with the first two events seemingly-random or unimportant, but the third forming a clincher or dramatic finale.
The trefle of porridges Goldilocks tasted in The Three Bears ended with the one she found "just right."
by mindbluff_DOT_com August 29, 2010
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