Epizeuxis

For the genus of moth, see Epizeuxis (moth).

In rhetoric, an epizeuxis is the repetition of a word or phrase in immediate succession, for vehemence or emphasis.^[1]

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^[2]
"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.

“

Alone, alone, all all alone,

Alone on a wide, wide sea".

”

↑ Arthur Quinn, Figures of Speech, Gibbs M. Smith, Inc., Salt Lake City, Utah, 1982.
↑ http://www.easter1916.net/oration.htm

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