Epizeuxis is a figure of speech in which a word or short phrase is repeated immediately and without interruption for emphasis — the same lexical item appears consecutively, as in 'fire fire!' or 'no no no.' Its parameters are: (1) immediate adjacency with no intervening words, (2) identical lexical form (not merely synonymous), and (3) pragmatic intent to amplify force, urgency, or emotional intensity. It persists through spoken performance and written citation of dialogue, taught as a named technique in rhetoric and grammar curricula, and preserved in lists of figures across languages and periods.
[formal: epizeuxis | substrate: mind | horizon: a moment | explicit: yes | epoch: 0.01]
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epizeuxis
Epizeuxis is a figure of speech in which a word or short phrase is repeated immediately and without interruption for emphasis — the same lexical item appears consecutively, as in 'fire fire!' or 'no no no.' Its parameters are: (1) immediat…
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Why it is in scope
A rhetorical figure in which a word or phrase is repeated immediately and contiguously with no intervening words, used for emphasis or emotional intensity. It is human-made as a figure of speech recognized and taught in rhetoric and literary study.
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- epizeuxisen · CANONICAL
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Epizeuxis (immediate repetition for emphasis) is deployed by design to heighten rhetorical effect — intensity, urgency, passion. The figure exists for the sake of rhetoric's persuasive operation.
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Epizeuxis is immediate repetition for emphasis — a specific kind of figure of speech. Competent-speaker test passes: 'epizeuxis is a kind of figure of speech.' Per Law 9.
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