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Epizeuxis

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In rhetoric, an epizeuxis is the repetition of a word or phrase in immediate succession, for vehemence or emphasis.

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
  • "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
  • "But you never know now do you now do you now do you."—David Foster Wallace, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
  • "Tora! Tora! Tora!"- A 1970 movie of the same name focused around the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

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    Epizeuxis Wikipedia
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