Diacope Example

"Scott Farkus staring out at us with his yellow eyes. He had yellow eyes! So help me, God! Yellow eyes!"

Ralphie Parker, A Christmas Story, 1983

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Diacope Example

 "I'm gonna cut out now with this unusual song I'm dedicating to an unusual person who makes me feel kind of unusual."
(Christian Slater as Mark Hunter in Pump Up the Volume, 1990)

Diacope

Diacope is a rhetorical term for a word or group of words that are repeated more than once in sentence separated by anything from one to a few words.

Example: "Put out the light, and then put out the light." (Othello in William Shakespeare's Othello, the Moor of Venice V.ii)


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