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Epizeuxis

Epizeuxis is a figure of speech in which a word or short phrase is repeated in immediate succession with no intervening words. The repetition serves to heighten emphasis, create rhythm, and convey heightened emotion. Epizeuxis is common in rhetoric, poetry, and dramatic prose, where speakers or writers seek to intensify a feeling or point.

The term comes from Greek, epizeuxis, and denotes the rapid repetition of a word or phrase. In

Epizeuxis is one of several repetition devices. It differs from anaphora, which repeats a word or phrase

Usage: In political oratory, dramatic dialogue, and poetry, epizeuxis is used to convey insistence or drama;

See also: anaphora, diacope, pleonasm.

English,
epizeuxis
can
involve
a
single
word,
such
as
"Never,
never,
never,"
or
a
short
phrase
repeated
three
times
or
more.
at
the
beginning
of
successive
clauses,
and
from
diacope,
which
repeats
a
word
with
one
or
more
words
between
occurrences.
It
is
also
contrasted
with
polyptoton,
which
repeats
the
same
root
in
different
forms,
and
with
pleonasm,
where
repetition
serves
a
stylistic
or
rhetorical
surplus.
it
can
risk
sounding
archaic
or
emphatic.
Writers
may
vary
the
number
of
repetitions
for
effect
and
may
couple
epizeuxis
with
other
devices
to
build
rhythm.