epizeuxis
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- noun
- /ˌɛpɪˈzuːksɪs/
- Literature
- To emphasize her excitement, she exclaimed, 'This is it, it is happening, it is happening!' using an epizeuxis.
Examples
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In his speech, the politician emphasized his main point with an epizeuxis by repeating the word 'unity' three times.
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The poet used epizeuxis to create a haunting effect, echoing the word 'never' throughout the stanza.
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Apodioxis and epizeuxis sound like diseases you wouldn't especially want to catch.
Blog text (25) -
Devices of repetition are foregrounded in "The Tell-Tale Heart," and there Poe frequently combines two such devices: epizeuxis and diacope.
Academic text (1997) -
Close relatives of anadiplosis include epizeuxis, palilogia, duplicatio (and similar cognates), and ploce.
Fiction book (1996) -
We also consider specific rhetorical figures in the tales that convey the psychological/emotional states of Poe's frenzied narrators (for instance, litotes, meiosis, epizeuxis, diacope).
Academic text (1997)
Synonyms
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An action of saying or doing the same thing again to make it clear and show its importance
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Using the same word or phrase to make a point stronger and create a rhythm
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Repeating a word or short phrase in a sentence to add emphasis
Repeating a word or short phrase immediately to make it stronger
Surface Forms
Etymology
Epizeuxis comes from the Greek parts epi- 'upon' and zeuxis 'joining', like a yoke that joins two oxen. So epizeuxis is like a word 'yoked' to itself — repeated right away to make the idea stronger.