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Diacope

di-a'-co-pee from Gk. diakopto, “to cut in two, cut through”
the doubler

Repetition of a word with one or more between, usually to express deep feeling.

Examples

As Shakespeare's Tempest opens a terrible storm frightens those aboard a ship, of which one proclaims

"All lost! To prayers, to prayers! All lost!"

Acknowledgement

The above information on individual rhetorical techniques is reproduced from the website “Silva Rhetoricae” (www.rhetoric.byu.edu ) under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 licence. Credit for this content lies with Professor Gideon O Burton of Brigham Young University.