Diacope
Diacope (/daɪˈækəpi/ dy-AK-ə-pee) is a rhetorical term meaning repetition of a word or phrase that is broken up by a single intervening word, or a small number of intervening words.[1][2] It derives from a Greek word diakopḗ,[3][4] which means "cut in two".[5][6]
Examples
- "Bond. James Bond." — James Bond
- "Put out the light, and then put out the light." — Shakespeare, Othello, Act V, scene 2.
- "A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse! — Richard III
- "You think you own whatever land you land on" — Second verse from the song "Colors of the Wind" from the movie Pocahontas
- Leo Marks's poem "The Life That I Have",[7] 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."
- "In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these." — Paul Harvey. This is also an example of an epanalepsis.
References
- Phillips, Edward (1720). The New World of Words Or Universal English Dictionary Containing and Account of the Original Or Proper Sense and Various Significations of All Hard Words Derived from Other Languages. J. Phillips.
- Walker, John (1874). Walker's Pronouncing Dictionary of the English Language, Adapted to the Present State of Literature and Science. Simpkin, Marshall.
- "Diacope - Examples and Definition of Diacope". Literary Devices. 2016-04-11. Retrieved 2021-06-02.
- "Mining Rhetorical Devices by means of Natural Language Processing" (PDF).
- "Diacope," by Richard Nordquist. Accessed 24 September 2012.
- "Want to get noticed at the workplace? These word tricks are all you need - Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 2021-06-02.
- Marks, Leo (1998). Between Silk and Cyanide. New York: The Free Press (Simon and Schuster). p. 454. ISBN 0-684-86422-3.
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