Epizeuxis
The rhetorical figure Epizeuxis is an immediate repetition of a word or group of words three or more times .
In contrast to Geminatio , it is not just a question of doubling, but of repeating a word or group of words three or more times. The repeated sentence elements are integrated into a syntactic context.
Examples
- Very, very, very good
- "But woe, woe, woe, When I look to the end !!" ( Wilhelm Busch , Max and Moritz )
- "Truly three times, truly, truly, truly, truly, truly, that is probably six times" ( Jacob Andreae in a sermon )
- "O horror, horror, horror." ( Macbeth )
- "No! No! No! that can't be. "( Friedrich Schiller , Die Räuber )
- "And I jet, jet, jet, jet in pace" ( Codo ... jet in pace )
- "Facts, facts, facts" (news magazine Focus )
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Keyword Epizeuxis ( Memento of the original from September 28, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in Literary Studies Online, version of January 18, 2010
