Diacope

Diacope ( ) is a rhetorical term consisting of the repetition of a word or phrase separated up by a single intervening word or short phrase. It derives from a Greek word diakopḗ, which means "cut in two". Diacopes (or diacopae) are used for emphasis— specifically on the repeated phrase— and expressing strong emotions.

Diacope ( ) is a rhetorical term consisting of the repetition of a word or phrase separated up by a single intervening word or short phrase. It derives from a Greek word diakopḗ, which means "cut in two". Diacopes (or diacopae) are used for emphasis— specifically on the repeated phrase— and expressing strong emotions. ==Examples== The following are examples of vocative diacopes: "I am dying, Egypt, dying" — Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, Act IV, Scene 15. "The horror! Oh, the horror!" "Run, Forrest, run" — Forrest Gump "Burn baby burn" — "Disco Inferno" The following are examples of elaborative diacopes: "Bond. James Bond." — James Bond "Put out the light, and then put out the light." — Shakespeare, Othello, Act V, scene 2. "In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these." — Paul Harvey (also an example of an epanalepsis). "You think you own whatever land you land on" — Second verse from the song "Colors of the Wind" from the movie Pocahontas The following are examples of extended diacopes: "A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse! — Shakespeare, Richard III "And we loved with a love that was more than love—I and my Annabel Lee" — Edgar Allan Poe, Annabel Lee "Free at last. Free at last. Thank God almighty we are free at last" — Martin Luther King, Jr. "I'm thirsty, I'm thirsty! Oh, God, I'm thirsty! Oh I'm thirsty! Oh I'm thirsty! I'm thirsty! Oh, Oh, Oh, I'm thirsty!" — "The Crucifixion," Jesus Christ Superstar (this could be considered in the form AABABABAABA or alternatively as multiple diacopes) "Keeps going and going and going." — Energizer slogan Leo Marks's poem "The Life That I Have", 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." ==See also== Epizeuxis Tmesis ==References==

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