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Diacope

Repetition of a word or phrase with one or a few intervening words From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Diacope (/dˈækəpi/ dy-AK-ə-pee) is a rhetorical term meaning repetition of a word or phrase that is broken up by a single intervening word, or a small number of intervening words.[1][2] It derives from a Greek word diakopḗ,[3][4] which means "cut in two".[5][6] Diacopae (or diacopes) are used in writing to emphasize or describe something. Like other forms of repetition, diacope helps express strong emotions, or help give weight to the repeated word.[7]

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Types of Diacope

Diacope can be utilized in three ways in writing. They are:

  1. Vocative Diacope: In this type of diacope, the repeated words are separated by nouns that are directly addressed. The noun must address something, or someone.
  2. Elaborative Diacope: Here an adjective is used between the repeated words to enhance the meaning of the repeated word.
  3. Extended Diacope: Sometimes a word is repeated thrice for even more emphasis.[8]
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Examples

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The life that I have
Is all that I have
And the life that I have
Is yours.
The love that I have
Of the life that I have
Is yours and yours and yours.
A sleep I shall have
A rest I shall have
Yet death will be but a pause.
For the peace of my years
In the long green grass
Will be yours and yours and yours.

The first line in the poem not to deploy diacope is the one about death being "a pause."

  • "In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these." — Paul Harvey. This is also an example of an epanalepsis.
  • "Keeps going and going and going." — Energizer Slogan (Example of Extended Diacope)
  • "I am dying, Egypt, dying" — Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, Act IV, Scene 15. (Example of Vocative Diacope)
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