n.
(Rhet.) A figure by which a word is repeated with vehemence or emphasis, as in the following lines: --
Alone, alone, all all alone,Coleridge.
Alone on a wide wide sea.
Epizeuxis
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n.
| Literary Dictionary: epizeuxis |
epizeuxis, a rhetorical figure by which a word is repeated for emphasis, with no other words intervening: sick, sick, sick!
| Poetry Glossary: Epizeuxis |
A rhetorical device consisting of the immediate repetition of a word or phrase for emphasis
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In linguistics, an epizeuxis is the repetition of words in immediate succession, for vehemence or emphasis.[1]
Examples:
- "O horror, horror, horror." (Macbeth)
- "Words, words, words." (Hamlet)
- "Never, never, never, never, never." (Lear)
- "Rain, rain, rain, rain, rain." (Kay)
- "Developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers. Developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers!" (Steve Ballmer)
- "Education, education, education." (Tony Blair)
- "Never, never, never quit." (Winston Churchill)
- "Location, location, location." (Common phrase tied to real estate)
- "The horror, the horror" (Kurtz in Heart of Darkness)
- "No, no, no!" (Margaret Thatcher)
Such repetition is also used in writing and song:
| “ | Alone, alone, all all alone,
Alone on a wide, wide sea". |
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| “ | Round here we stay up very, very, very, very late".
— Counting Crows in Round Here |
” |
References
- ^ "Epizeuxis" in Harris R, A Glossary of Literary Terms, Version Date: May 22, 1997
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