epizeuxis

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  1. In ancient prosody, union of two successive Ionics a minore so that the last syllable of the first and the first syllable of the second interchange quantities: thus, ⌣ ⌣ – ⌣ | – ⌣ – – for ⌣ ⌣ – – | ⌣ ⌣ – –. The syllables representing an Ionic a majore (– – ⌣ ⌣) thus suffer anaclasis, taking the form – ⌣ – ⌣.
  2. In rhetoric, immediate or almost immediate repetition of a word, involving added emphasis. An example of accumulated (fourfold) epizeuxis is: Alone, alone, all, all alone, Alone on a wide, wide sea. Coleridge, Ancient Mariner, iv.
  3. See palillogy. Also called diplasiasmus.

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  1. Late Latin, from Greek ἐπίζευξις, a fastening together, repetition of a word, from ἐπιζευγνύναι, fasten together, join to, from ἐπί, to, + ζευγνύναι = Latin jungere, join: see join, zeugma.
 

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