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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 (/daɪˈækəpi/ 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:
- 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.
- Elaborative Diacope: Here an adjective is used between the repeated words to enhance the meaning of the repeated word.
- Extended Diacope: Sometimes a word is repeated thrice for even more emphasis.[8]
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- "Bond. James Bond." — James Bond
- "Put out the light, and then put out the light." — Shakespeare, Othello, Act V, scene 2.
- "A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse! — Richard III
- "You think you own whatever land you land on" — Second verse from the song "Colors of the Wind" from the movie Pocahontas
- "And we loved with a love that was more than love—I and my Annabel Lee" — Edgar Allan Poe, Annabel Lee
- Leo Marks's poem "The Life That I Have",[9] memorably used in the film Odette, is an extended example of diacope:
- 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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