Epizeuxis
For the genus of moth, see Epizeuxis (moth).
In rhetoric, an epizeuxis is the repetition of a word or phrase in immediate succession, for vehemence or emphasis.[1]
Examples
- "Never give in — never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy."—Winston Churchill
- "O horror, horror, horror."—Macbeth
- "Words, words, words."—Hamlet
- "Break, Break, Break"—Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- "Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God."—Isaiah 40.1
- "Rain, rain, rain, rain, rain."—Guy Gavriel 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, never, never!"—King Lear
- "Location, location, location."—common phrase tied to real estate
- "The horror, the horror"—Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
- "The fools, the fools, the fools!"—Patrick Pearse[2]
- "No, no, no!"—Margaret Thatcher
- "Yes, yes, yes!"—Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz
- "Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!"—Henry David Thoreau, Walden
- "Scotch, scotch, scotch, scotchy, scotchy scotch."—Ron Burgundy, Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
- "Fun, fun, fun, fun."—Rebecca Black
- "Baby, baby, baby ooh"—Justin Bieber
- "But you never know now do you now do you now do you."—David Foster Wallace, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
- "Round here we stay up very, very, very, very late".—Counting Crows, "Round Here"
- "Tora! Tora! Tora!"- A 1970 movie of the same name focused around the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
| “ | Alone, alone, all all alone,
Alone on a wide, wide sea". —Samuel Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" |
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See also
References
- ↑ Arthur Quinn, Figures of Speech, Gibbs M. Smith, Inc., Salt Lake City, Utah, 1982.
- ↑ http://www.easter1916.net/oration.htm