Epizeuxis

Epizeuxis (a Graeco) in rhetorica est iteratio vocabuli vel locutionis, vehementiae vel impressionis causa.

Exempla

Anglica

• "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"—Alfredus 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!"—Stephanus Ballmer
• "Education, education, education."—Tony Blair
• "Never, never, never, never, never!"—King Lear
• "Location, location, location."—Locutio communis in negotio rerum soli
• "The horror, the horror"—Iosephus Conrad, Heart of Darkness
• "The fools, the fools, the fools!"—Patricius Pearse
• "No, no, no!"—Margarita Thatcher
• "Yes, yes, yes!"—Casimirus Marcinkiewicz
• "Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!"—Henricus 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"—Iustinus 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!"—Pellicula 1970 eiusdem nominis de impetu Iaponiensi in Portum Margaritarum.

Nexus interni

• Anaphora
• Diacope

Bibliographia

• Köhler, Reinhard, et Gabriel Altmann, eds. 2015. Forms and Degrees of Repetition in Texts: Detection and Analysis. Berolini et Bostoniae: De Gruyter Mouton.

Nexus externi

• Text and Audio illustrations of epizeuxis